Discrimination in second hand consumer markets: evidence from a field experiment

M. Belén Cobacho () and Mariano Bosch
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Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: This paper studies discrimination against immigrants in the consumer market in Spain. We send emails of fictitious buyers to a popular Spanish second hand market webpage similar to ebay. Sellers are approached randomly by buyers with Spanish native or foreign sounding names to signal their ethnic origin. We find that those buyers with a foreign sounding name are contacted around 7.8 percentage points less than those with a Spanish sounding name. We then turn to explore how the price of the advertised good influences the degree of discrimination against foreign sounding names. We find that differential treatment across names occurs with more intensity for cheaper goods.

Keywords: discrimination; second hand consumer market; field experiment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2011-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-mig and nep-mkt
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