Do landlords discriminate in the rental housing market? Evidence from an internet field experiment in US cities

By A. Hanson, Zackary B. Hawley. 2010

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Ethnic and gender discrimination in the rental housing market: Evidence from a meta-analysis of correspondence tests, 2006–2017 (2018, methodology): “The latest correspondence test done in the United States was realized by Hanson and Santas (2014) between February and March 2011 in 21 major US cities.”
Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition (2016, background): “…estimated the effects of a group-attribute signal (mostly names) in applications (e.g., Jowell and Prescott-Clark 1970, Weichselbaumer 2003, Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004, Ahmed and Hammarstedt 2008, Banerjee, Bertrand, Datta and Mullainathan 2009, Hanson and Hawley 2011, Kaas and Manger 2012).”
How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies (2017, unknown): “…correspondence audits often mixed “black” first names with both predominantly black last names and predominantly white last names within a study (Hanson and Hawley 2011; Milkman, Akinola, and Chugh 2012), whereas more recent studies often match first and last names by race (Gaddis 2016;…”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “The same implications are studied by Hanson and Hawley (2011), Baldini and Federici (2011) and Friedman et al. (2010), with the additional purpose of determining racial discrimination across neighborhoods.”
New Insights into Rental Housing Markets across the United States: Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings (2016, background): “Few researchers have studied Craigslist rental listings directly, but those who have usually do so in the context of landlord discrimination and the Fair Housing Act (e.g., Kurth 2007; Decker 2010; Oliveri 2010; Hanson and Hawley 2011).”
Racial bias and the validity of the Implicit Association Test (2016, background): “, 2012) and correspondence studies, which use fabricated paper applications (e.g. Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2004; Hanson and Hawley, 2011; Hanson et al., 2011) provide further evidence of the existence of discrimination, though they are largely silent on the magnitude of the effect.”