Housing Discrimination and the Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States: Evidence from the Rental Market

Autor:	Peter O. Christensen, Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri, Christopher Timmins
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	African american Economics and Econometrics Renting Geography White (horse) business.industry Housing discrimination Demographic economics business Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Zdroj:	The Review of Economics and Statistics. 104:807-818
ISSN:	1530-9142 0034-6535
DOI:	10.1162/rest_a_00992
Popis:	Local pollution exposures have a disproportionate impact on minority households, but the root causes remain unclear. This study conducts a correspondence experiment on a major online housing platform to test whether housing discrimination constrains minority access to housing options in markets with significant sources of airborne chemical toxics. We find that renters with African American or Hispanic/Latinx names are 41% less likely than renters with white names to receive responses for properties in low-exposure locations. We find no evidence of discriminatory constraints in high-exposure locations, indicating that discrimination increases relative access to housing choices at elevated exposure risk.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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