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Sexual Orientation and Racial Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: An Audit Correspondence Field Experiment

Discrimination
Audit
Mortgage
Sexual Orientation

Patrick Button, Hussain Hadah, Javiera Selman, Bariş Alan, Cathy Balfe, and Tran Nguyen-Phuong*. “Sexual Orientation and Racial Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: An Audit Correspondence Field Experiment.”

Authors
Affiliations

Patrick Button

Tulane University

Hussain Hadah

Northwestern University

Javiera Selman

Cathy Balfe*

Tran Nguyen-Phuong*

Published

September 2025

Other details

Related: See Balfe et al. (2022) for the pilot study. Experiment is in the field.