Field Experiment Tests for Discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. Rental Housing Market

Andrew Hanson and Michael Santas

Southern Economic Journal, 2014, vol. 81, issue 1, 135-167

Abstract: This article tests for discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. rental housing market using e‐mail correspondence with landlords advertising units online. We divide Hispanics into two groups: those that appear assimilated into American culture and recent immigrants. We find little difference in the treatment of assimilated Hispanics and whites; however, Hispanics we portray as recent immigrants receive less favorable treatment with margins of net discrimination as large as 6.89% of landlords. We also find discrimination varies significantly at the region level and by the ethnic composition of neighborhoods.

Date: 2014
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