Racial discrimination against prospective tenants : evidence from the room rental market in Singapore

• Main Authors: Chew, Ilynn Mei Xian, Goh, Pei Ying, Ng, Wan Zhyi
• Other Authors: Leong Kaiwen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Statistics; Social sciences::Economic theory
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138771
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Results from past field experiments have converged in one direction — racial minorities experience significant discrimination in the room rental market. To investigate racial discrimination in Singapore, we conduct a correspondence study and create one fictitious Malaysian tenant profile for each ra...