Chinese exclusion? Agent response in the market for owner‐occupied housing
通过通信实验测试房地产中介对华人客户的回应差异,发现整体无差别,但在农村和某些州存在显著歧视,白人中介偏向白人客户,华人中介更偏向华人客户。
Abstract We design and implement a correspondence experiment to test for differences in real estate agent response to Chinese clients. In the full sample, real estate agents are no more likely to respond to white clients than Chinese clients. Subsample results show statistically significant differential treatment of Chinese clients in rural areas and in some states. White real estate agents favor white clients (7.90% higher response rate), and Chinese real estate agents favor Chinese clients by a wide margin (151.11% higher response rate).