Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com

By Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca. 2014

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Show Me the Way to Go Home: An Empirical Investigation of Ride-Sharing and Alcohol Related Motor Vehicle Fatalities (2017, background): “…that researchers have proposed the sharing economy as a viable alternative to established firms in many markets—for example, AirBnB for hotels (Edelman and Luca 2014) and the crowdfunding of nascent ventures (Burtch et al. 2013)— our results highlight the importance of cost considerations in…”
Peeking Beneath the Hood of Uber (2015, background): “Most disturbingly, [9, 29] revealed the existence of racial discrimination on AirBnB and Google Ads.”
Adding evidence to the debate: Quantifying Airbnb's disruptive impact on ten key hotel markets (2019, background): “…Nicolau, 2017); Airbnb supply and demand dynamics (see e.g., Dogru et al., 2017a; Haywood et al., 2017); racial discrimination on Airbnb (see e.g., Edelman & Luca, 2014); the effects of Airbnb on gentrification (see e.g., D. Lee, 2016); and the regulation of Airbnb (see e.g., Kaplan & Nadler,…”
Data ex Machina: Introduction to Big Data (2017, methodology): “Online markets such as Airbnb and Kickstarter have been used to study patterns of social inequality in online markets (Edelman & Luca 2014, Greenberg & Mollick 2016).”
Auditing Algorithms : Research Methods for Detecting Discrimination on Internet Platforms (2014, background): “(e.g., Edelman & Luca, 2014) Economic Opportunity: Does algorithmically-controlled personalization systematically restrict the information available to the economically disadvantaged?”
Personal or Product Reputation? Optimizing Revenues in the Sharing Economy (2019, background): “These include the full identification of the seller (Edelman and Luca 2014), the seller’s personal photo (Ert et al. 2016), and the experience of the seller, measured through the time the seller is present on the platform (Pera et al. 2016).”
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2017, background): “Edelman and Luca (2014) show that AfricanAmerican hosts on Airbnb seek and receive lower prices than White hosts, controlling for”
Can You Gig It? An Empirical Examination of the Gig Economy and Entrepreneurial Activity (2018, background): “Indeed, these platforms are already estimated to comprise a roughly $26 billion market (Malhotra and Van Alstyne 2014) and numerous studies have explored patterns of demand for services provided by gig-economy platforms (Edelman and Luca 2014, Greenwood and Wattal 2015, Zervas et al. 2015).”
The Effect of Home-Sharing on House Prices and Rents: Evidence from Airbnb (2021, unknown): “See Einav et al. (2016) for an overview of the economics of peer-to-peer markets including the specific technological innovations that have facilitated their growth.”
The “sharing” economy: labor, inequality, and social connection on for‐profit platforms (2017, unknown): “One paper, using data scraped from Airbnb's website, found that Black hosts received nightly rates that were 12% lower than non‐Black hosts and that Black hosts suffered a higher penalty for undesirable locations (Edelman & Luca, 2014).”
Actionable Auditing: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products (2019, background): “…bias present in data-centric technologies that continue to play an integral role in daily life, from governing access to information and economic opportunities to inﬂu-encing personal freedoms (Julia Angwin and Kirchner 2016; Jakub Mikians 2012; Aniko Hannak and Wilson 2017; Edelman and Luca 2014).”