MEASURING RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION IN THE HOUSING-MARKET - DIRECT AND INDIRECT EVIDENCE

Recently, several researchers have attempted to evaluate the extent to which housing discrimination explains the continuing levels of racial separation in U.S. metropolitan areas. They often use audit data that show that black households are likely to experience substantial discr imination in the housing market. A reevaluation of the statistical stu dies of segregation suggests that the effects of discrimination are sm aller than has been previously postulated, and direct estimates of hou sing discrimination from surveys provide a rationale for such smaller effects.