Is Hiding My First Name Enough? Using Behavioural Interventions to Mitigate Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market

Between Carrots and Sticks, from Intentions to Actions: Behavioural Interventions for Housing Decisions

“…Similarly, knowing how much their water consumption is relative to other farmers effectively reduced the water consumption of heavy irrigators (Chabe-Ferret et al, 2019). Bao (2023) found that social movement hashtags when embedded in email messages, enhanced the chances of ethnic minority renters receiving responses from property letting agents in London.…”

“…For example, field experiment evidence from China shows that informed homebuyers make better homepurchase decisions . Additionally, providing information about occupation and income helped property letting agents overcome statistical discrimination against ethnic minority renters in the London rental market (Bao, 2023).…”