2013/08/20 by Andrew Hanson, Michael Santas · 6 citations
Social Sciences · #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
paper · doi:10.4284/0038-4038-2012.231
This article tests for discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. rental housing market using e‐mail correspondence with landlords advertising units online. We divide Hispanics into two groups: those that appear assimilated into American culture and recent immigrants. We find little difference in the treatment of assimilated Hispanics and whites; however, Hispanics we portray as recent immigrants receive less favorable treatment with margins of net discrimination as large as 6.89% of landlords. We also find discrimination varies significantly at the region level and by the ethnic composition of neighborhoods.