TY  - JOUR
AU  - Boustan,Leah Platt
AU  - Margo,Robert A.
TI  - White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16702
PY  - 2011
Y2  - January 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16702
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16702.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Leah Platt Boustan
Department of Economics
8283 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477
Tel: 310/794-4263
Fax: 310/825-9528
E-Mail: lboustan@econ.ucla.edu

Robert A. Margo
Department of Economics
Boston University
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617/353-6819
Fax: 617/343-8495
E-Mail: margora@bu.edu
AB  - Between 1940 and 1980, the rate of homeownership among African-American households increased by close to 40 percentage points. Most of this increase occurred in central cities. We show that rising black homeownership was facilitated by the filtering of the urban housing stock as white households moved to the suburbs, particularly in the slower growing cities of the Northeast and Midwest. Our OLS and IV estimates imply that up to one half of the national increase in black homeownership over the period can be attributed to white suburbanization.
ER  -