Are the Religiously Observant Discriminated Against in the Rental Housing Market? Experimental Evidence from Israel

In this article, I test for discrimination against the religiously observant in the Israeli rental housing market. I perform a correspondence study where half of the requests have a religious signal ("basad" written at the top of the request), while the other half do not. Because the reque...

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Main Author: Sansani, Shahar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 459-474
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Israel / Orthodox Judaism / Mietwohnung / Real estate business / Underprivilege
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BH Judaism
KBL Near East and North Africa
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B correspondence study
B Discrimination
B Housing
B Religiosity
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Summary:In this article, I test for discrimination against the religiously observant in the Israeli rental housing market. I perform a correspondence study where half of the requests have a religious signal ("basad" written at the top of the request), while the other half do not. Because the requests are identical otherwise, differences in call-back rates represent the causal effect of writing "basad" at the top of the request. I find that requests with a religious signal receive 12 percent fewer positive responses than requests with no such signal, with this differential being greater with female landlords and in cities with more left-leaning voters, higher mean incomes, and higher education levels.
ISSN:1468-5906
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12596