Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
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About Elizabeth
Korver-Glenn's research examines how racial, economic, and gender inequalities are perpetuated through markets and how public policies perpetuate or mitigate these inequities. Most of her scholarship has focused on housing markets and housing policy, but she has also examined labor markets and is increasingly interested in taxation and municipal budgeting processes.
Contributions
No Jargon Podcast
Publications
Studies the housing market—a domain centrally linked to persistent, systemic disparity. Examine how racial stereotypes permeate the distinct but serially linked stages of the housing exchange process; the conditions under which stereotypes are deployed in each stage; and how such dynamics accumulate to affect ultimate processes of exclusion and inclusion.
Highlights real estate agents’ reliance on social networks as key to how “new inequality” happens. Investigates the contextual factors that enable white agents to maintain predominantly white networks and how disparate-impact consequences for minority home buyers and sellers emerge when white agents deploy their networks in ordinary housing situations.
Explores racial inequality in the contemporary appraisal industry and how it happens. Reveals that substantial neighborhood racial inequality in home values persists even when all variables are accounted for, and exposes the appraisal processes that enable this inequality to continue.