January 12, 2022 • 14 mins
What are racial covenants? How do they target specific ethnic and religious minorities? And how do they affect present-day economic outcomes? In this episode, Aradhya Sood tells us about her research on the prevalence of racially-restrictive covenants during the early-to-mid 20th century, and how these contracts continue to impact house prices and promote racial segregation today.
Working Paper:
Long Shadow of Racial Discrimination: Evidence from Housing Covenants, with William Speagle and Kevin Ehrman-Solberg
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J8KdEYskg4l2WvBTOESTogftChaYr8yo/view
Recommendation:
Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities, Jessica Trounstine (2019)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/segregation-by-design/9CEF629688C0C684EDC387407F5878F2
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