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Chinese exclusion? Agent response in the market for owner‐occupied housing

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  • Andrew Hanson
  • Zackary Hawley

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We design and implement a correspondence experiment to test for differences in real estate agent response to Chinese clients. In the full sample, real estate agents are no more likely to respond to white clients than Chinese clients. Subsample results show statistically significant differential treatment of Chinese clients in rural areas and in some states. White real estate agents favor white clients (7.90% higher response rate), and Chinese real estate agents favor Chinese clients by a wide margin (151.11% higher response rate).

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  • Andrew Hanson & Zackary Hawley, 2024. "Chinese exclusion? Agent response in the market for owner‐occupied housing," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 52(5), pages 1340-1372, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reesec:v:52:y:2024:i:5:p:1340-1372
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.12503
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