Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
通过Airbnb上的田野实验，发现名字明显像非裔美国人的租客申请被接受的概率比名字像白人的租客低16%，歧视主要来自从未接待过非裔客人的房东。
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.