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Ep. 255 The Economics of Discrimination

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The Mortgage Bias Between Blacks and Whites

This is just looking at applications and they're saying once you adjust for credit score and things like that, then the bias goes away. So it didn't completely go away, but when they correct for obvious factors that would influence your willingness to grant a mortgage to somebody, then the apparent gap shrinks. And again, you see this stuff I alluded to with the pay arguments between men and women. But yeah, you just ask big picture men and women who gets paid more,. You get one number and that's where they come up withLike, oh, men get paid 40 or women only get paid, whatever it is.

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