Abstract
Ethnic and gender discrimination in a variety of markets has been documented in several populations. We conducted an online field experiment to examine ethnic and gender discrimination in the private rental housing market in Finland. We sent 1459 inquiries regarding 800 apartments. We compared responses to standardized apartment inquiries including fictive Arabic-sounding, Finnish-sounding or Swedish-sounding female or male names. We found evidence of discrimination against Arabic-sounding names and male names. Inquiries including Arabic-sounding male names had the lowest probability of receiving a response, receiving a response to about 16% of the inquiries made, while Finnish-sounding female names received a response to 42% of the inquires. We did not find any evidence of the landlord’s gender being associated with the discrimination pattern. The findings suggest that both ethnic and gender discrimination occur in the private rental housing market in Finland.
Highlights
Definition and types of discriminationPublished: August 30, 2017
We found no evidence of a threeway interaction between landlord gender and tenant gender and ethnicity (χ2 [2] = 0.90, p = .64 for responses and χ2 [2] = 0.34, p = .84 for positive responses)
Neither did we find any two-way interactions between landlord gender and tenant gender (χ2 [1] = 2.16, p = .14 for responses and χ2 [1] = 2.27, p = .13 for positive responses) or between landlord gender and landlord ethnicity (χ2 [2] = 2.96, p = .23 for responses and χ2 [2] = 3.80, p = .15 for positive responses)
Summary
The second inquiry was sent one to three days after the first one. Our aim was to send 1600 inquiries in total.
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