Ethnic discrimination on paper: uncovering realtors’ willingness to discriminate with mystery mails

Abel Ghekiere, Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe

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Abstract

Introducing a new method, we measure real estate agents’ intentions to act upon a discriminatory request on the housing market. Our results show that realtors are willing to discriminate on request and that the method of mystery mails allows scholars to measure and contextualize these discriminatory intentions in a detailed and elaborate way.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1235-1238
Number of pages4
JournalApplied Economics Letters
Volume30
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by SBO-FWO under Grant Research Foundation Flanders [S004119N].

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Copyright:
Copyright 2023 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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