TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanson, Andrew
AU  - Hawley, Zackary
TI  - Do landlords discriminate in the rental housing market?: Evidence from an internet field experiment in US cities
PY  - 2011///
PB  - Journal of Urban Economics
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - International
KW  - North America
N1  - KEYWORDS: Racial discrimination, private rental market, application process
N2  - This paper tests for racial discrimination in the rental housing market using matched-pair audits conducted via e-mail for rental units advertised on-line. We reveal home-seekers’ race to landlords by sending e-mails from names with a high likelihood of association with either whites or African Americans. Generally, discrimination occurs against African American names; however, when the content of the email messages insinuates home-seekers with high social class, discrimination is non-existent. Racial discrimination is more severe in neighborhoods that are near ‘‘tipping points’’ in racial composition, and for units that are part of a larger building
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094119011000179
ER  -