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1University of Luxembourg; 2Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research; 3Vienna University of Economics and Business;
Discussant: Pryce, Gwilym (University of Sheffield)
Participants to an online study in Luxembourg are presented fake real-estate advertisements and tasked to make an offer to the shown properties. A random subset is also shown sellers' names that are strongly framed to signal their origins. Our randomised procedure allows us to conclude that, keeping everything else constant, sellers with African-sounding surnames are systematically offered lower prices. Our most conservative estimates suggest that the average racial appraisal penalty stemming from the demand-side of the housing market is equal to 22,000 euros. Last, we show that this appraisal bias hides important differences across respondents: it is null for the youngest and most educated ones, as well as for those without some personal ties to the African diaspora, but can amount up to around 65,000 euros for those above 40 years of age and without post-secondary education.
Opening up the City: Did the Pandemic Make Cities More Equal?
Ellen, Ingrid1; Kulka, Amrita2; Liao, Hsi-Ling1
1New York University; 2University of Warwick;
Discussant: Waltl, Sofie R. (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Existing research on the impact of COVID-19 on migration patterns has focused on decisions to leave cities and central neighborhoods. In this paper, we consider the implications of recent migration patterns and the flattening of the rent gradient on sorting and segregation within cities. Focusing on New York City, we use individual-level address history data to study the extent to which departures during COVID opened up opportunities for new types of residents to settle in central neighborhoods and thereby furthered economic and racial income integration. The preliminary descriptive analysis suggests increased mobility out of expensive, dense, and central neighborhoods after the start of COVID, with younger, white individuals moving at especially high rates. Yet, we also find that those moving within the city in the post-pandemic period settled in neighborhoods that were more centrally located, higher-density, higher-income, and whiter relative to their origin tracts compared to pre-COVID moves within NYC. This suggests that the exit of NYC residents during the pandemic may have opened up units that were previously unavailable or unaffordable, allowing stayers to re-sort within the city. We are currently analyzing the characteristics of people moving into and out of individual buildings to test this possibility more rigorously.
Housing Discrimination in the Local Context: A Comparative Study of Housing Discrimination in Four English Towns and the Role of Local Socioeconomic Context
1University of Exeter, UK; 2Duke University, USA; 3University of Sheffield, UK; 4University of Illinois, USA;
Discussant: Kulka, Amrita (University of Warwick)
This paper seeks to extend the literature on housing market discrimination by exploring the role of neighbourhood context. Many studies of housing market discrimination focus on a particular town or city, and implicitly assume that discrimination is a ubiquitous or geographically uniform phenomenon. We focus on whether context matters – the extent to which the nature of housing discrimination is specific to, or transcends, the particularity of neighbourhood contexts. As far as we are aware, ours is the first study to explore this theme in the UK – no robust, large sample, multi-city study currently exists for any region of the UK.
