Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192529 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 547
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
This paper considers statistical discrimination in rental markets, using a rich data set on rental contracts from Norway. We find that tenants born abroad pay a statistically significant and economically important premium for their dwelling units after controlling for a comprehensive set of apartment, individual and contract specific covariates. We also find that the premium is largest for tenants of African origin. Moreover, the children of parents born abroad also face a statistically significant and economically important rental premium.
Subjects: 
Statistical Discrimination
Rental Markets
Hedonic Regression
JEL: 
J15
R21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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