Faculty Affiliate Omer Ali is an Assistant Professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, and previous postdoctoral fellow a the Cook Center. Ali is the lead researcher on a new article published in Regional Science and Urban Economics this month examining the relationship between race and home values in Durham, North Carolina. The study finds a strong association with racial composition and neighborhood rating, which add to literature on the persistence of racial disparities in housing outcomes.
Co-authors include Cook Center Director William A. Darity Jr. and former postdoctoral associate Clinton Boyd Jr.
Read more and access the paper here: Race and home values in Durham, North Carolina: 1940–2020