Examining differential treatment of single mothers and people with disabilities in the apartment rental market

- A correspondence methodology tests for discrimination in apartment rentals.
- Randomly assigned signals of single-motherhood or disability create two treatments.
- Relative to the control, single-mothers receive 14.3% fewer responses.
- Relative to the control, people signaling disability receive 12.5% fewer responses.

This paper attempts to improve our understanding of rental market experiences of single mothers and people with disabilities. Inquiry emails randomly assigned a signal of disability receive 12.5% fewer responses than control emails, and those signaling single-motherhood receive 14.3% fewer.