The New Geography of Housing Discrimination

Field-experiment estimates of minority disadvantage in housing search, from the studies reviewed in the Race, symbolic stigma and foreignness project. An odds ratio below 1 means the minority applicant was less likely to get a positive response than the majority reference: below 1 is disadvantage, above 1 is advantage.

Mean odds ratio: 0.31 no study On-going Study

Country colour is the arithmetic mean of the reported odds ratios among the estimates that match the filters above; hover for the count. These are simple descriptive averages, not meta-analytically pooled effects, and means over few estimates are fragile.

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