Discrimination in the rental housing market: A field experiment on the Internet

By Ali M. Ahmed, Mats Hammarstedt. 2008

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Subfields: Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Detecting Discrimination against Homosexuals: Evidence from a Field Experiment on the Internet (2009, background): “However, the magnitude of the results are substantially lower than what has been observed for ethnicity on the Swedish housing market (Ahmed and Hammarstedt 2008), and also lower than what has been observed for ethnicity in the labour market in Sweden as well as in other countries (Carlsson and…”
Field experiments across the social sciences (2017, background): “…studies have also uncovered discrimination toward a diverse array of groups, most notably women (Galster & Constantine 1991, Neumark et al. 1996, Ahmed & Hammarstedt 2008) and racial/ethnic minorities, including African Americans (Turner et al. 1991, Massey & Lundy 2001, Pager 2003, Bertrand &…”
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: homosexuality and physical appearance (2015, neutral): “[6] Ahmed, A.”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “Discrimination in online rental housing is investigated by Ahmed and Hammarstedt (2008). Fictitious e-mails with ethnic and gender sounding names are sent in response to house rental ads.”
Ethnic and gender discrimination in the rental housing market: Evidence from a meta-analysis of correspondence tests, 2006–2017 (2018, background): “The first experiment, done by Ahmed and Hammarstedt (2008) between February and March 2007 with the sending of one thousand and five hundred emails to private and corporate landlords in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö, and in non-metropolitan areas revealed the presence of both ethnic and gender di”
Can Discrimination in the Housing Market Be Reduced by Increasing the Information about the Applicants? (2010, methodology): “Another result that conforms to the findings of Ahmed and Hammarstedt (2008) is that people with Arab/Muslim backgrounds have a higher probability of receiving a call back from landlords in metropolitan areas than in nonmetropolitan, reflecting that the magnitude of discrimination is larger in…”
Statistical Discrimination or Prejudice? A Large Sample Field Experiment (2014, background): “…confounding factors inherent to in-per- son audit studies, as they rely on actors who often differ in many dimensions.5 In contrast, Carpusor and Loges (2006) and Ahmed and Hammarstedt (2008) pioneered the use of email correspondence design to study ethnic discrimination in rental housing markets.”
Information and discrimination in the rental housing market: Evidence from a field experiment (2010, background): “A similar study conducted by Ahmed and Hammarstedt (2008) reveals that ethnic and gender discrimination exists in the Swedish rental housing market.”
Field Experiments on Discrimination (2016, background): “? tried to relate the behavior of recruiters in a correspondence study in Sweden (focusing on Arab-Muslim vs Christian) to recruiter-level measures of implicit discrimination they collected later.”
Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country (2014, background): “in the labor market (Bursell, 2007; Carlsson and Rooth, 2007; Rooth, 2010) and in the housing market (Ahmed and Hammarstedt, 2008).”
No Room for New Families? : A Field Experiment Measuring Rental Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples and Single Parents (2011, background): “By contrast, Ahmed and Hammarstedt (2008) find that men are discriminated against in Sweden.”