CAFO Working Papers, Centre for Labour Market Policy Research (CAFO), School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University
No 2007:2:
Detecting discrimination against homosexuals: Evidence from a field experiment on the Internet
Ali M. Ahmed ()
and Mats Hammarstedt ()
Abstract: This paper presents the first field experiment studying
discrimination against homosexuals. The study is conducted on the rental
housing market in Sweden using the Internet as a research platform. Two
fictitious couples, one heterosexual and one male homosexual, apply for
vacant rental apartments advertised by landlords on the Internet. Our
findings show that homosexual males are discriminated on the Swedish
housing market, since the homosexual couple gets far fewer call backs,
invitations to further contacts and to showings of apartments than the
heterosexual couple.
Keywords: Sexual orientation; Discrimination; Field experiments; Housing market; Internet; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: C93; J15; J71; (follow links to similar papers)
22 pages, June 1, 2007
Before downloading any of the electronic versions below
you should read our statement on
copyright.
Download GhostScript
for viewing Postscript files and the
Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing pdf files.
Full text versions of the paper:
discuss.php?d=375 
Download Statistics
Questions (including download problems) about the papers in this series should be directed to Andreas Mångs ()
Report other problems with accessing this service to Sune Karlsson ()
or Helena Lundin ().
Programing by
Design by Joachim Ekebom
