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Ethnic discrimination on paper: uncovering realtors’ willingness to discriminate with mystery mails

Abel Ghekierea Department of Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;b Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, BelgiumCorrespondence[email protected]
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Louis Lippensa Department of Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;b Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, BelgiumORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7840-2753View further author information
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Stijn Baerta Department of Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;c Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium;d Institute of Economic and Social Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;e IZA, Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1660-5165View further author information
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Pieter-Paul Verhaegheb Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;f Department of Sociology, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2582-6506View further author information
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Pages 1235-1238 | Published online: 27 Feb 2022

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