Measuring racial discrimination with fair housing audits: caught in the Act.

By John M. Yinger. 1986

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FIELD EXPERIMENTS O F D ISCRIMINATION IN T HE MARKET PLACE (2002, unknown): “It was not until the 1980s that this experimental technique found a place in the economics journals, with articles by Firth (1981) in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Yinger (1986) in American Economic Review and Riach and Rich (1987) in Australian Economic Papers.”
A field experiment to study sex and age discrimination in the Madrid labour market (2011, background): “…and Mullainathan 2004; Duguet and Petit 2004; Weichselbaumer 2004), discrimination in access to housing (Wienk, Reid, Simonson and Eggers 1979; Yinger 1986; Galster and Constantine 1991; Ahmed and Hammarstedt 2007) and discrimination in other goods markets, such as the car market (Ayres 1991;…”
Information and discrimination in the rental housing market: Evidence from a field experiment (2010, background): “[17] Yinger, J.”
Can Discrimination in the Housing Market Be Reduced by Increasing the Information about the Applicants? (2010, methodology): “The first preference-based discrimination hypothesis, usually referred to as the agentprejudice hypothesis, says that landlords discriminate because of their own prejudiced attitudes toward a group of people and that they discriminate to avoid dealing with people from that group (Yinger 1986).”
Field Experiments: A Bridge between Lab and Naturally Occurring Data (2007, unknown): “For example, Yinger (1986) examines data drawn from a large audit study conducted in Boston in 1981 and reports that race played an important role: black housing seekers were informed about 30 percent fewer available housing units than were whites.”
The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets. (2008, background): “…and Native Americans, including nearly 5500 paired tests in nearly 30 metropolitan areas [see Turner et al. (2002), Turner & Ross (2003a); see also Hakken (1979), Feins & Bratt (1983), Yinger (1986), Roychoudhury & Goodman (1992, 1996) for additional, single-city audits of housing discrimination].”
Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model (2011, unknown): “It argues that discriminatory behaviors of real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and insurance providers prevent blacks from moving into their most preferred neighborhoods (see, e.g., Yinger, 1986, 1995; Goering and Wienk, 1996).”
Space and Unemployment: The Labor‐Market Effects of Spatial Mismatch (2003, background): “Alternatively, blacks could face housing discrimination in the suburbs, as documented by Yinger (1986, 1997).”