Discrimination - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jun 2016
News

Study: Airbnb hosts discriminate

September 2020 (Revised July 2022)
Exercise

Artea (C): Potential Discrimination through Algorithmic Targeting

This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and targeting. Parts (B),(C),(D) Introduce algorithmic bias. The... View Details

Keywords: Targeting; Algorithmic Bias; Race; Gender; Marketing; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Prejudice and Bias; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States

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22 Jan 2018
News

When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender

Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

In the late 1980s, law professors Ian Ayres and Peter Siegelman set out to learn whether blacks and women got the same deals as white men when buying a new car. They trained 38 people—some white and some black, some male and some female—to negotiate a purchase using a... View Details

26 Apr 2016
News

When Personalization Leads To Discrimination On AirBnB

26 Jan 2018
News

Employers don’t discriminate against women just because they’re women

31 Jan 2023
News

Addressing Racial Discrimination on Airbnb

11 Feb 2013
News

Le recrutement collectif limite les discriminations Ã l'embauche

12 Dec 2015
News

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy

guests with African-American names are about 16 percent less likely to have their reservations accepted. As Luca told the Washington Post: “Nobody at Airbnb was thinking to themselves, ‘let’s build a platform where we could discriminate... View Details

21 Jul 2016
News

Former Attorney General Will Work With Airbnb To Address Discrimination

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

Abstract: 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... View Details

24 Feb 2014
News

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy

28 Jan 2014
News

HBS Working Paper Sparks Discussion About Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

racial discrimination. In Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com, Benjamin G. Edelman and Michael Luca investigate the possibility of racial discrimination against people who advertise properties on Airbnb, a popular online... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising