Subtle Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from E-Mail Correspondence of Landlords
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
9 p.
Publication Date
12-2011
Publisher
Elsevier
Source Publication
Journal of Housing Economics
Source ISSN
1051-1377
Original Item ID
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2011.09.003
Abstract
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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Recommended Citation
Hanson, Andrew; Hawley, Zackary; and Taylor, Aryn, "Subtle Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from E-Mail Correspondence of Landlords" (2011). Economics Faculty Research and Publications. 281.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/econ_fac/281
Comments
Accepted version. Journal of Housing Economics, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2011): 276-284. DOI.
Andrew Hanson was affiliated with Georgia State University at time of publication.
Published under Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.