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Big Data and Discrimination

By: Talia B Gillis and Jann Spiess

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Discrimination in Rural Housing

By: Dutch Leonard, Janet K. Marantz and Karl E. Case

Keywords: Housing; Attitudes

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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

22 Jan 2018
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When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender

26 Jan 2018
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Employers don’t discriminate against women just because they’re women

26 Apr 2016
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When Personalization Leads To Discrimination On AirBnB

11 Feb 2013
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Le recrutement collectif limite les discriminations Ã l'embauche

31 Jan 2023
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Addressing Racial Discrimination on Airbnb

21 Jul 2016
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Former Attorney General Will Work With Airbnb To Address Discrimination

12 Dec 2015
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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

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
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Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy

28 Jan 2014
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HBS Working Paper Sparks Discussion About Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

12 Oct 2022
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Mike Luca: The Role Experiments Play in Addressing Discrimination

24 Feb 2014
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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