For Whom Does the Phone (not) Ring? Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market in Delhi, India

Saugato Datta () and Vikram Pathania ()

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Abstract: Using an audit experiment carried out on of India’s largest real estate websites, this study documents striking variations between landlords’ treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes, and Muslims. We find strong evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both in terms of probability of being contacted and the number of contacts, relative to upper-caste Hindu (UC) applicants, in the rental housing market in Delhi and its largest suburbs.

Keywords: housing; landlord; tenant; upper caste Hindu; Muslim; application; real estate; rental; housing market; one-bedroom houses; callback; phone; listings; discrimination; India; religion; caste; Delhi; Scheduled Castes; Other Backward Classes; apartment; infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
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