Subtle discrimination in the rental housing market: Evidence from e-mail correspondence with landlords

We find that landlords practice subtle discrimination in the rental housing market through the use of language associated with describing and viewing a unit, inviting further correspondence, making a formal greeting, and using polite language when replying to e-mail inquiries from a white name more often than to an African American name, they also send longer e-mails and respond quicker to white names.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Hanson, Andrew ; Hawley, Zackary ; Taylor, Aryn
Published in:	Journal of Housing Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 1051-1377. - Vol. 20.2011, 4, p. 276-284
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Discrimination \| Field experiment \| Housing \| Race

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races ; C93 - Field Experiments
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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