Are the Religiously Observant Discriminated Against in the Rental Housing Market? Experimental Evidence from Israel
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 reque...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 459-474 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Israel
/ Orthodox Judaism
/ Mietwohnung
/ Real estate business
/ Underprivilege
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
correspondence study
B Discrimination B Housing B Religiosity |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12596 |