Are the Religiously Observant Discriminated Against in the Rental Housing Market? Experimental Evidence from Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2288063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shahar Sansani (0000-0001-9101-5205, College of Management Academic Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 459-474 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jssr.12596 |
| OpenAlex | W2756724132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
In this article, I test for discrimination against the religiously observant in the Israeli rental housing market. I perform a correspondence study where half of the requests have a religious signal ('basad' written at the top of the request), while the other half do not. Because the requests are identical otherwise, differences in call-back rates represent the causal effect of writing 'basad' at the top of the request. I find that requests with a religious signal receive 12 percent fewer positive responses than requests with no such signal, with this differential being greater with female landlords and in cities with more left-leaning voters, higher mean incomes, and higher education levels
Business · Demographic economics · Differential (mechanical device) · Differential effects · Differential treatment · Economics · Physics · Political science · Rental housing · Renting · Sociology · Test (biology) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |