{"id":5731,"date":"2023-03-03T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2023-03-03T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:15:18","slug":"discrimination-against-gay-and-transgender-people-in-latin-america-a-correspondence-study-in-the-rental-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/?p=5731","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination Against Gay and Transgender People in Latin America: A Correspondence Study in the Rental Housing Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wonderplugin-pdf-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/wp-content\/plugins\/wonderplugin-pdf-embed\/pdfjslight\/web\/viewer.html?v=2&file=https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/works\/works2022\/4.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border:0;\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abWe assess the extent of discrimination against gay and transgender individuals in the rental<br \/>\nhousing markets of four Latin American countries. We conducted a large-scale field experiment<br \/>\nbuilding on the correspondence study methodology to examine interactions between<br \/>\nproperty managers and fictitious couples engaged in searches in a major online rental housing<br \/>\nplatform. We find stronger discriminatory constraints on trans couples compared to gay<br \/>\nmale and heterosexual couples: trans couples are 18% (26%) less likely to receive responses<br \/>\n(positive responses) than heterosexual couples. We also assess whether the evidence is consistent<br \/>\nwith models of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination by comparing<br \/>\ncall-back rates for couples who signal or not a high socioeconomic status (high-SES). We<br \/>\nfind no significant effect of the signal on call-back rates for heterosexual or gay male couples,<br \/>\nbut when trans couples signal a high SES their call-back rate (positive response rate) increases<br \/>\n37% (49%). Our results suggest the presence of discrimination against trans couples<br \/>\nin the Latin American online rental housing market, which\u2014at least in part\u2014seems to be<br \/>\ndue to statistical discrimination. Moreover, we find no evidence on heterosexual couples<br \/>\nbeing favoured over gay male couples, nor evidence of discriminatory constraints consistent<br \/>\nwith statistical discrimination for gay male or heterosexual couples.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anales","tag-aaep-anales-2022"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Discrimination Against Gay and Transgender People in Latin America: A Correspondence Study in the Rental Housing Market - Asociaci\u00f3n Argentina de Econom\u00eda Pol\u00edtica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Discrimination Against Gay and Transgender People in Latin America: A Correspondence Study in the Rental Housing Market - Asociaci\u00f3n Argentina de Econom\u00eda Pol\u00edtica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;We assess the extent of discrimination against gay and transgender individuals in the rental housing markets of four Latin American countries. 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