Interesting
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Ethnic discrimination in the Italian rental housing market
Basically, what this study did was sending emails reacting offers of apartments for rent, changing between Italian, East European and Arab/Muslim male and female names, to see how those different groups would be treated and how often their emails would be reacted to.
Now, of course nobody here would doubt that it's clearly much better to be Svetlana than Igor, or to be Fatima than Ahmed, but in case anyone wasn't sure whether it's also better to be Fatima than being Igor, seems like we have proof it is, at least as long as you are in a country where neither of you are a majority.
Obviously Italians, specifically Italian women, were the most likely to receive positive replies, but it's interesting how for the two foreign groups gender mattered somewhat more than their race/ethnicity, and it even varied by region.
Interesting effects of flat size as well.
What I'm getting from that is that, as flats get bigger, the probability of a positive reply increases for all groups, probably because the owners assume that the people contacting them at least have the money to pay them. At the first quintile of flat sizes, the two groups of foreign men were basically just shat on, for the next three quintiles it improved especially for EE men who were somewhat on the level of the two groups of foreign women, and at the highest quintile of flat size it more or less returned to the original state with both groups of foreign men at the bottom, except that for some reason EE women were now tied or even a bit above Italians themselves (I guess the landlords thought some Russian oligarchs' heiresses wanted to rent their apartments for parties or something?)
.Ethnic discrimination in the Italian rental housing market
Basically, what this study did was sending emails reacting offers of apartments for rent, changing between Italian, East European and Arab/Muslim male and female names, to see how those different groups would be treated and how often their emails would be reacted to.
Now, of course nobody here would doubt that it's clearly much better to be Svetlana than Igor, or to be Fatima than Ahmed, but in case anyone wasn't sure whether it's also better to be Fatima than being Igor, seems like we have proof it is, at least as long as you are in a country where neither of you are a majority.
Obviously Italians, specifically Italian women, were the most likely to receive positive replies, but it's interesting how for the two foreign groups gender mattered somewhat more than their race/ethnicity, and it even varied by region
.Interesting effects of flat size as well
.What I'm getting from that is that, as flats get bigger, the probability of a positive reply increases for all groups, probably because the owners assume that the people contacting them at least have the money to pay them. At the first quintile of flat sizes, the two groups of foreign men were basically just shat on
, for the next three quintiles it improved especially for EE men who were somewhat on the level of the two groups of foreign women, and at the highest quintile of flat size it more or less returned to the original state with both groups of foreign men at the bottom, except that for some reason EE women were now tied or even a bit above Italians themselves (I guess the landlords thought some Russian oligarchs' heiresses wanted to rent their apartments for parties or something?)@based_meme @DarkStar @Stupid Clown @Sergeant Kelly @To koniec @reveries @NIGGER BOJANGLES @decafincel
