Homeownership Gaps Between Ethnic Groups

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Homeownership Gaps Between Ethnic Groups ECN741: Urban Economics Homeownership Gaps Between Ethnic Groups Professor John Yinger, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2019

2. Explaining Homeownership Gaps Class Outline 1. Homeownership Gaps 2. Explaining Homeownership Gaps 3. Interpretation of Existing Literature

2. Explaining Homeownership Gaps Class Outline 1. Homeownership Gaps 2. Explaining Homeownership Gaps 3. Interpretation of Existing Literature

Homeownership Gaps Homeownership Gaps The U.S. is a nation of homeowners; about two- thirds of households own their own home. The U.S. also has had long-standing and surprisingly consistent homeownership gaps between blacks and whites and between Hispanics and non-Hispanic- whites. In both cases, the homeownership rate has been about 25 percentage points lower for the minority group since the early 1980s. The question is: Why?

2. Explaining Homeownership Gaps Class Outline 1. Homeownership Gaps 2. Explaining Homeownership Gaps 3. Interpretation of Existing Literature

Gabriel and Rosenthal, JUE, January 2005 Homeownership Gaps Gabriel and Rosenthal, JUE, January 2005 Homeownership depends on income, education (linked to permanent income), wealth, family size, age, etc. A link between homeownership and ethnicity after controlling for all these things might be a sign of discrimination. But it could also reflect some omitted homeownership determinant, such as being credit- constrained.

Homeownership Gaps

Homeownership Gaps Gabriel and Rosenthal, 2   Gabriel and Rosenthal use the Survey of Consumer Finances, which provides some information on credit constraints: “[I]ndividuals are coded as not credit constrained if they report that they had not had any loan request turned down or partially rejected, and also that they had not been discouraged from applying for credit in the previous years. In the discussion to follow, these individuals are characterized as not constrained. All other households are characterized as possibly constrained.”

Homeownership Gaps Gabriel and Rosenthal, 3 The Gabriel/Rosenthal model starts with two latent variables, which reflect the likelihood that(1) the family is not credit constrained and (2) that the family prefers to own (if barriers were not an issue): INotCC = xc + μ1   IPOwn = xb + μ2 where x is a set of household traits and other controls. The error terms are drawn from a bivariate normal distribution.  Given their data, they assume that a household is not credit constrained if INotCC > 0, but might be constrained otherwise.

Gabriel and Rosenthal, 4 Homeownership Gaps This set-up leads to the following log-likelihood function:   where F(.) and G(.) are the standard unit and bivariate normal distributions and the σ’s indicate covariances. They then estimate c, b, and the σ’s; that is, they find the values of these parameters that maximize L. This set-up allows them to estimate the probability for homeownership among households who are not credit constrained. In other words, they can see if credit constraints explain a large share of the black-white homeownership gap.

Homeownership Gaps

Homeownership Gaps

Homeownership Gaps

Homeownership Gaps Interpretation As Gabriel and Rosenthal emphasize, the ethnic gaps that remain after controls (about 10% for blacks and Hispanics in 2001) are caused by discrimination and other unobservable factors. They are consistent with discrimination, but not proof of discrimination. Audit studies provide much more direct and compelling evidence about discrimination.

Deng, Ross, and Wachter, RSUE, September 2003 Homeownership Gaps Deng, Ross, and Wachter, RSUE, September 2003 “Three tenure choice models are estimated: Model I, a basic model that controls for household characteristics and is comparable to traditional models. Model II, which includes additional controls for the characteristics of each household’s residential location, such as percent of households in poverty and percent of African–American, and assumes that decisions on residential location are exogenous to the tenure choice. Model III, which considers the influence of residential location options on homeownership endogenously based on a nested multinomial logit specification.”

The D/R/W Nested Multinomial Logit Model Homeownership Gaps The D/R/W Nested Multinomial Logit Model Own Rent Neigh 1 Neigh 2 … Neigh n Neigh 1 Neigh 2 … Neigh n

Neighborhood Variables in D/R/W Homeownership Gaps Neighborhood Variables in D/R/W The models “include standard location attributes, such as the racial or income composition of a location or whether the location is located in the central city.” The models also include two variables “constructed using the estimates from standard house value and rental price models that control for the physical characteristics of the housing unit and location dummy variables. The estimated coefficients on the location dummy variables are price fixed effects. ..[which are] a proxy for the amenity level associated with that location.” The ratio of the rental and owner-occupied price fixed effects are used as a proxy for equity risk.

D/R/W Results Homeownership Gaps In a simulation in which all neighborhood attributes are the same for blacks and whites, the homeownership gap between blacks and whites goes up.

Homeownership Gaps D/R/W Results, 2 The main results in these simulations involve poverty and amenity prices. “A decrease in the neighborhood poverty faced by African–Americans to the level faced by white households on average lowers predicted racial differences in homeownership” (controlling for amenities and racial composition). “When African–Americans face the higher prices for housing that are associated with better neighborhood amenities, racial differences in homeownership rates increase.”

D/R/W Results, 3 Homeownership Gaps In a simulation in which a summary measure of neighborhood quality is the same for blacks and whites, the homeownership gap between blacks and whites goes up.

The other rows refer to a more complex, but similar, simulation. Homeownership Gaps D/R/W Results, 4 Note that an “inclusive value” is the expected utility from the neighborhood choice given the tenure choice. So the exercise in the first row of their Table 7 holds neighborhood satisfaction constant across groups. The other rows refer to a more complex, but similar, simulation.

Homeownership Gaps D/W/R Conclusions “The influence of location choice appears to mitigate racial differences in homeownership rates, rather than contribute to these differences…. [T]he elimination of these differences [in neighborhood quality] increases racial differences in homeownership rates by 17 percentage points. An important implication of these findings is that previous studies may have overstated the importance of endowment differences. This paper finds that credit constraints can explain 77 percent of racial differences in homeownership using a traditional model, but when homeownership rates are compared while controlling for location, credit constraints explain less than half of the predicted racial differences in homeownership rates.”

2. Explaining Homeownership Gaps Class Outline 1. Homeownership Gaps 2. Explaining Homeownership Gaps 3. Interpretation of Existing Literature

The Standard Interpretation Homeownership Gaps The Standard Interpretation As indicated earlier, studies in this literature control for observable factors and conclude that any remaining homeownership gap could be due to discrimination. The studies consistently find gaps after controls. These results do not prove that housing discrimination still exists, but they do prove that this possibility cannot be ruled out—and is worth further investigation.

An Unrecognized Problem Homeownership Gaps An Unrecognized Problem This literature does not consider the possibility of disparate-impact discrimination. According to our civil rights laws, discrimination takes two forms, and the standard approach to homeownership gaps implicitly assumes that only one form is at work.

Discrimination Covered by Civil Rights Laws Homeownership Gaps Discrimination Covered by Civil Rights Laws Disparate-Treatment Discrimination Using different rules for different legally protected classes Disparate-Impact Discrimination Using the same rules for all classes, but also using rules that place one class at a disadvantage without a business justification.

Why Disparate Impact Matters Homeownership Gaps Why Disparate Impact Matters As we will discuss in detail in the class on mortgage discrimination, disparate-impact discrimination arises when lenders, brokers, or housing sellers use rules or procedures that place certain ethnic groups at a disadvantage with no business justification. Ignoring this possibility, might lead to estimates of discrimination that are biased toward zero. This is difficult to sort out, because all the studies use reduced forms—not structural equations.

Homeownership Gaps The Implication No article on homeownership gaps accounts for disparate-impact discrimination. In fact, disparate-impact discrimination might be built into the coefficients of the “controls.” As a result, the estimates in this literature might understate discrimination.

Example of D-I Discrimination Homeownership Gaps Example of D-I Discrimination Most studies include “college education” as a control. This is seen as a proxy for wealth or permanent income (since income is another control). But what if college education does not predict (or imperfectly predicts) wealth, but brokers use education as a screen for treating customers. Then whites, who have more education, will receive better treatment and be more likely to be homeowners than blacks for a reason unconnected with ability to buy housing—or with demand.