This paper studies discrimination in the housing market of Stockholm by conducting a field experiment on the internet. Fictitious applicants with typical Swedish and Arabic sounding names apply vacant rental housing units advertised by private persons on the internet.
The paper explores the incidence of discrimination in the choice by advertisers to invite applicants to further contacts or to a showing of the vacant housing unit. We find in line with previous studies that women with Swedish sounding names experience a positive treatment compared to applicants with an Arabic sounding name. However, there is little evidence of a difference in the response rates between the male with a Swedish, and those with Arabic sounding names irrespective of gender.
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