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| Title: | RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN HIRE/PURCHASE LENDING IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA |
| Authors: | Schreiner, Mark
Graham, Douglas H.
Cortes-Fontcuberta, Manuel
Coetzee, Gerhard K.
Vink, Nick |
| Authors (Email): | Schreiner, Mark (schreiner.10@osu.edu) |
| Keywords: | Consumer finance
disequilibrium models
racial discrimination
truncated and censored models
South Africa |
| Issue Date: | 1997 |
| Series/Report no.: | Selected Paper |
| Abstract: | A partial-observability model finds evidence of racial discrimination by retailers of consumer durables in apartheid South Africa. In particular, black households are 13 percentage points more likely to demand a hire/purchase loan but not to have one supplied than are other households, all else equal. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/21026 |
| Institution/Association: | American Agricultural Economics Association>1997 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Toronto, Canada |
| Total Pages: | 15 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | 1997 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Toronto, Canada
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