racial discrimination
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Renting While Black: Revealed Preferences in the Sharing Economy
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Evidence from a recent field experiment, based on data from Airbnb, demonstrates that racial discrimination persists on modern, online sharing marketplaces. Results indicate that guests with distinctively African-American names were found to be 16 percent less likely to be accepted by hosts on the site than guests with distinctively White…
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Not for Rent: Factors Behind Racial Discrimination in the US Rental Market
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Researchers explore the role of prejudice in race-based rental discrimination.