Can Discrimination in the Housing Market Be Reduced by Increasing the Information about the Applicants?
通过向瑞典房东发送不同信息量的租房申请，发现增加申请人信息能提高回复率，但并未减少对阿拉伯/穆斯林名字申请人的歧视。
We investigate how increasing the information about applicants affects discrimination in the rental housing market. We let four fictitious applicants, two with typical Arab/Muslim names and two with typical Swedish names, use application letters containing different amounts of information to apply for apartments over the Internet in Sweden. The Arab/Muslim applicants received fewer responses from the landlords than did the Swedish applicants. All of the applicants gained by providing more information about themselves, but the amount of discrimination against the Arab/Muslim applicants remained unchanged, indicating that increasing the amount of information about the applicants will not reduce discrimination. <i></i>