Discrimination in the rental housing market: A field experiment on the Internet

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 362-372

  Ahmed, Ali M ^a,b   Hammarstedt, Mats ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Field experiments; Housing market; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249103991     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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