Disability Discrimination in the Italian Rental Housing Market: A Field Experiment with Blind Tenants

Luca Fumarco

Land Economics, 2017, vol. 93, issue 4, 567-584

Abstract: I test discrimination against blind tenants assisted by guide dogs in the Italian rental housing market by using fake application letters. I compare three fictitious household tenants: married couples, married couples where the wife is blind and owns a guide dog, and married couples where the normal-sighted wife owns a normal dog. I find that the households with a blind wife are invited less often to visit apartments they applied for, because of the presence of their guide dog; using the language of Italian and E.U. laws, this behavior is called indirect discrimination against disabled people. This result is robust.

JEL-codes: R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
Note: DOI: 10.3368/le.93.4.567
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