Field Experiment Tests for Discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. Rental Housing Market |
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| Authors: | Andrew Hanson Michael Santas |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA;2. -mail
andrew.r.hanson@marquette.edu;3. corresponding author.;4. Department of Economics, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3992, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA |
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| Abstract: | This article tests for discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. rental housing market using e‐mail correspondence with landlords advertising units online. We divide Hispanics into two groups: those that appear assimilated into American culture and recent immigrants. We find little difference in the treatment of assimilated Hispanics and whites; however, Hispanics we portray as recent immigrants receive less favorable treatment with margins of net discrimination as large as 6.89% of landlords. We also find discrimination varies significantly at the region level and by the ethnic composition of neighborhoods. |
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| Keywords: | J15 C93 |
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