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AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 1-27Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20140074
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- Ford Foundation
- Research Sponsors Program of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton
- Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies at the University of Connecticut
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This paper examines mortgage outcomes for a large sample of individual home purchases and refinances linked to credit scores in seven major US markets. Among those with similar credit scores and loan attributes, black and Hispanic homeowners had much higher rates of delinquency and default in the downturn. These estimated differences are especially pronounced for loans originated near the peak of the housing boom. These findings suggest that black and Hispanic homeowners drawn into the market near the peak were especially vulnerable to adverse economic shocks and raise concerns about homeownership as a mechanism for reducing racial disparities in wealth.
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