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Detecting Discrimination against Homosexuals: Evidence from a Field Experiment on the Internet
Author(s) -
AHMED ALI M.,
HAMMARSTEDT MATS
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
economica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.532
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1468-0335
pISSN - 0013-0427
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00692.x
Subject(s) - renting , rental housing , the internet , business , advertising , demographic economics , psychology , marketing , economics , political science , law , computer science , world wide web
This paper presents the first field experiment studying discrimination against homosexuals on the housing market. The study is conducted on the rental housing market in Sweden using the internet as a research platform. Two fictitious couples, one heterosexual and one male homosexual, apply for vacant rental apartments advertised by landlords on the internet. Our findings show that homosexual males are discriminated against on the Swedish housing market, since the homosexual couple gets far fewer call‐backs and fewer invitations to further contacts and to showings of apartments than the heterosexual couple.

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