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Stephen L. Ross

Associate Professor


Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT  06269-1063

Telephone:
(860) 486-3533
Fax: (860) 486-4463
e-mail:
Stephen.L.Ross@uconn.edu

Office Location: Monteith, Rm. 416

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Education: Ph.D. Syracuse

Research Interests: Urban Economics, local public finance

Teaching Fields: Public Finance

Links:

Vita

On-line Access to Papers

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Ross and Yinger's chapter on Sorting and Voting

Housing Discrimination Study (HDS) 2000 Data and Related Research
 

Working Papers:

"Neighborhood information externalities and the provision of mortgage credit"
(with AKM Rezaul Hossain).

"Mortgage lending in Chicago and Los Angeles: A paired testing study of the
pre-application process" (with M. Turner, E. Godfrey, and R. Smith).

"What is known about testing for discrimination: Lessons learned from comparing across markets and methodologies."

"Place of work and place of residence: Informal hiring networks and labor
market outcomes" (with P. Bayer and G. Topa).

"Changes in discrimination against Black homebuyers between 1989 and 2000:
Exploring inter-metropolitan variation." (with G. Galster).

"The location of the poor in a metropolitan area: Positive and normative
analysis" (with C. de Bartolome).

"Race and access to mortgage credit" (with H. Song)

"Which school attributes matter?  The influence of school district performance
and demographic composition on property values" (with C. Briggs, J. Clapp, and
A. Nanda).

"The continuing practice and impact of discrimination in housing markets"

"Effort, location, and urban unemployment" (with Y. Zenou).

"Detecting discrimination: A comparison of methods used by scholars and civil
rights enforcement officials" (with J. Yinger).
 

Recent Publications:

"Housing discrimination in metropolitan America: Explaining changes between
1989 and 2000" (with M. Turner). 2005. Social Problems. 52, 152-180.
 
"Racial discrimination in the search for housing" (with M. Turner). 2005. In
Metro Dilemma: Race and the Geography of Opportunity in America (Ed. X. Briggs). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute Press.
 
"Schools and housing markets: An examination of changes in school segregation and performance" (with J. Clapp). 2004. The Economic Journal, 114, F425-440.
 
"Whose in charge of the inner city: The conflict between efficiency and equity
in the Design of a metropolitan area" (with C. de Bartolome). 2004. Journal of
Urban Economics, 56, 458-483.
 
"Segregation and racial preferences: New theoretical and empirical approaches." 2004.  Annales dâ Economie et Statistique, 71/72, 143-172.  
 
"Racial bias in motor vehicle searches: Additional theory and evidence " (with
D. Dharmapala).  2004. Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 3, 1-21.
 
"Redlining, the community reinvestment act, and private mortgage insurance"
(with G. Tootell).  2004.  Journal of Urban Economics, 55, 278-297.
 
"Other things being equal: A paired testing study of discrimination in mortgage
lending" (with M. Turner, E. Godfrey, and R. Smith). 2003. Proceedings of the
Joint Statistical Meetings, Business and Economics Statistics Section (CD-Rom). American Statistical Association. Alexandria, VA.
 
"Now you see it, now you don't:  Why some homes are hidden from black buyers" (with J. Ondrich and J. Yinger).  2003.  Review of Economics and Statistics, 85, 854-873.
 
"Racial differences in homeownership: The effect of residential location" (with
Y. Deng and S. Wacther).  2003.  Regional Science and Urban Economics, 33,
517-556.
 
"Equilibria with local governments and commuting: Income sorting v. income
mixing" (with C. de Bartolome).  2003.  Journal of Urban Economics, 54, 1-20.
 
"Paired Testing and the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study." in Measuring
Housing Discrimination in a National Study: Report of a Workshop (Authors S.
Feinberg and A.W. Foster).  2002.  National Resource Council.  National Academy.
 
Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methods, and Fair Lending
Enforcement (with J. Yinger). 2002. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA.