The Reliability of Fair Housing Audits to Detect Racial Discrimination in Rental Housing Markets
研究了两种公平住房审计方法（现场审计和电话审计）在检测租赁住房市场中针对黑人的种族歧视时的可靠性，发现控制空置率后两种方法的一致性较高。
Racial discrimination against black Americans continues to exert a pervasive influence on all aspects of American life. This paper investigates the reliability of two techniques currently used by local fair housing groups to measure the extent of racial discrimination in the rental housing market: in‐person audits and telephone audits. When we do not control for the presence of vacancies, we observe a moderate rate of reliability between the in‐person audits and the telephone audits. When we control for the presence of vacancies, we observe a much higher degree of reliability between the two methods used to detect racial discrimination in rental housing markets. We conclude that these techniques are useful devices to detect racial discrimination in housing markets.