Description/Abstract
Discrimination occurs when people in a particular class are systematically treated less favorably than other equally qualified people. This study focuses on racial and ethnic discrimination in qualitative actions by real estate brokers, such as showing a customer a housing unit that was advertised in the newspaper. The data come from the Housing Discrimination Study, which conducted over 2,000 fair housing audits of real estate brokers in 25 metropolitan areas in 1989. Each audit consists of a visit to a real estate agency by a white person and either a black or Hispanic person with similar socio-economic characteristics. Using Chamberlain’s fixed-effects logit estimation, we develop a nationally representative measure of the incidence of discrimination in broker behavior and conduct hypothesis tests on the incidence and causes of discrimination. The results indicate widespread discrimination and support the hypotheses that brokers discriminate both out of personal prejudice and in response to the prejudice of present and future white clients.
Document Type
Working Paper
Date
5-1998
Language
English
Series
Metropolitan Studies Program Series
Disciplines
Economic Policy | Economics | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Public Policy
ISSN
0732 507X
Recommended Citation
Ondrich, Jan and Stricker, Alex, "Discrimination in Qualitative Actions by Real Estate Brokers" (1998). Center for Policy Research. 445.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/445
Source
Local Input
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Additional Information
Metropolitan studies program series occasional paper no.188