Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Department of Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
PLoS One. 2022 Oct 27;17(10):e0276698. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276698. eCollection 2022.
Ethnic discrimination on the housing market has been subject of research for years. While a field experimental approach is widespread, alternative attempts to objectively measure mechanisms of discrimination on the housing market are scarce. In line with labor market research, we stress that to reduce rental discrimination against ethnic minorities, we need understanding its underlying mechanisms. This is the first paper that introduces a vignette experiment to do so. We distinguish between four mechanisms put forward in the literature but hardly ever empirically tested: agent taste-based discrimination, owner taste-based discrimination, neighborhood taste-based discrimination and statistical discrimination, in a multifactorial vignette experiment among 576 pre graduate real estate student. In addition, our experimental design allows us to examine whether unequal treatment is heterogeneous by property owner and neighborhood characteristics.
多年来，住房市场上的种族歧视一直是研究的主题。虽然现场实验方法已经很普遍，但客观衡量住房市场歧视机制的替代方法却很少。与劳动力市场研究一致，我们强调要减少对少数民族的租房歧视，我们需要了解其背后的机制。本文首次引入情境实验来实现这一目标。我们区分了文献中提出的但几乎从未经过实证检验的四种机制：代理人基于偏好的歧视、业主基于偏好的歧视、邻里基于偏好的歧视和统计歧视，在 576 名房地产专业预毕业生中进行了多因素情境实验。此外，我们的实验设计还使我们能够检验对财产所有者和邻里特征的不平等待遇是否存在异质性。
