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    • 25 Jan 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    by Benjamin G. Edelman, Michael Luca & Daniel Svirsky

    Online platforms such as Airbnb create new markets by eliminating search frictions, building trust, and facilitating transactions. With the rise of the sharing economy, however, comes the prospect of racial discrimination that is unheard of in established platforms. The authors suggest changes to Airbnb’s site design to reduce or prevent discrimination.

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