PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Luca Fumarco
TI  - Disability Discrimination in the Italian Rental Housing Market: A Field Experiment with Blind Tenants
AID  - 10.3368/le.93.4.567
DP  - 2017 Nov 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 567--584
VI  - 93
IP  - 4
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/93/4/567.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/93/4/567.full
SO  - Land Econ2017 Nov 01; 93
AB  - I test discrimination against blind tenants assisted by guide dogs in the Italian rental housing market by using fake application letters. I compare three fictitious household tenants: married couples, married couples where the wife is blind and owns a guide dog, and married couples where the normal-sighted wife owns a normal dog. I find that the households with a blind wife are invited less often to visit apartments they applied for, because of the presence of their guide dog; using the language of Italian and E.U. laws, this behavior is called indirect discrimination against disabled people. This result is robust. (JEL R21)