No room for new families? A field experiment measuring rental discrimination against same-sex couples and single parents

Social Problems

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-409

  Lauster, Nathanael ^a   Easterbrook, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audit study; Family; Housing discrimination; Sexuality; Single parent

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960597281     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2011.58.3.389     Document Type: Article

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