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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2012

The Neighbor is King: Customer Discrimination in the Housing Market

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This paper provides a method to single out customer-based discrimination in the housing market. We build a matching model with ethnic externalities where landlords differ in the number of housing units they own within the same building. Multiple-dwelling landlords discriminate more often than single-dwelling landlords only if some tenants are prejudiced against the minority group. By testing the null hypothesis whereby minority tenants are equally likely to have a multiple-dwelling landlord, we can test whether there is customer discrimination or not. We run the test on French data and show evidence of customer discrimination in the rental market.
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halshs-00793403 , version 1 (22-02-2013)

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Pierre-Philippe Combes, Bruno Decreuse, Benoît Schmutz, Alain Trannoy. The Neighbor is King: Customer Discrimination in the Housing Market. 2012. ⟨halshs-00793403⟩
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