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All Other Things Being Equal: A Paired Testing Study of Mortgage Lending Institutions (Executive Summary) In Los Angeles — Blacks were offered less coaching than comparable white homebuyers, and were more likely to be encouraged to consider an FHA loan. Hispanics were denied basic information about loan amount and house price, told about fewer products, and received less follow-up compared to Anglo homebuyers. In Chicago — Blacks were denied basic information about loan amount and house price, told about fewer products, offered less coaching, and received less follow-up than comparable white homebuyers. Hispanics were quoted lower loan amounts or house prices, told about fewer products, and offered less coaching than comparable Anglo homebuyers.

Mortgage Lending Discrimination: A Review of Existing Evidence Discrimination in home mortgage lending takes two forms—differential treatment and disparate impact—and in many instances it is difficult, if not impossible, to disentangle the two.

Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS) | HUD USER Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS)

Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment, Devah Pager, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski (October 2009) http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/asr/Oct09ASRFeature.pdf

Princeton University Department of Sociology Pager, Devah. 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937-975.

Race Matters - Devah Pager To isolate the effect of a criminal record on the job search, Ms. Pager sent pairs of young, well-groomed, well-spoken college men with identical r´sum´s to apply for 350 advertised entry-level jobs in Milwaukee. The only difference was that one said he had served an 18-month prison sentence for cocaine possession. Two teams were black, two white. A telephone survey of the same employers followed. For her black testers, the callback rate was 5 percent if they had a criminal record and 14 percent if they did not. For whites, it was 17 percent with a criminal record and 34 percent without.

Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource Center at Northeastern University The following are traffic and pedestrian stop data collection reports that have been released by different jurisdictions and community groups.

Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource Center at Northeastern University The Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University utilizes strategic social science research methodologies to assist government agencies, educational institutions, and members of the community in the development of policy changes that advanced the cause of social justice.