Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
| Autor: | Dan Svirsky, Michael Luca, Benjamin Edelman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
African american
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Racism Race (biology) Renting Sharing economy Civil rights Political economy Political science 0502 economics and business Development economics Economics 050211 marketing Demographic economics business General Economics Econometrics and Finance Recreation 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism media_common |
| Zdroj: | SSRN Electronic Journal. |
| ISSN: | 1556-5068 |
| Popis: | In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African American names are 16 percent less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively white names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including small landlords sharing the property and larger landlords with multiple properties. It is most pronounced among hosts who have never had an African American guest, suggesting only a subset of hosts discriminate. While rental markets have achieved significant reductions in discrimination in recent decades, our results suggest that Airbnb's current design choices facilitate discrimination and raise the possibility of erasing some of these civil rights gains. (JEL C93, J15, L83) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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