Can Discrimination in the Housing Market Be Reduced by Increasing the Information about the Applicants?

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Information and discrimination in the rental housing market: Evidence from a field experiment (2010, background): “70[1] (161) 4.”
Field Experiments on Discrimination (2016, background): “Discrimination against Arabic name is found in Sweden (?)”
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: homosexuality and physical appearance (2015, unknown): “For example, Ahmed et al. (2013) for Sweden, which also construct “fake” CVs, find that a heterosexual male applicant received 14 % more responses from employers than a homosexual applicant. Using a similar methodology, Weichselbaumer (2013) shows that, for Germany, a single lesbian is 11–15 percent”