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Mohammed goes house-hunting: an experimental study of discrimination

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We conduct a field experiment in order to investigate discrimination against Muslims in the UK rental market. We find that Muslims are significantly less likely to receive a viewing, an extremely robust result that persists across genders, cities and landlord and property types. Further, there is evidence that even those landlords who do not formally discriminate are nonetheless less polite to Muslim applicants. Neither of the leading theories appear well suited to explain the discriminati...

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University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Sub department:
Economics
Oxford college:
Exeter College
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Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Sub department:
Economics
Oxford college:
Exeter College
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Supervisor
Type of award:
MPhil
Level of award:
Masters
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford
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English
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2020-06-04

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