What’s in a Picture?

By Devin G. Pope, Justin R. Sydnor. The Journal of human resources, 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Management Information Systems

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Rational Herding in Microloan Markets (2012, background): “…as physical appearance (Ravina 2008), lenders learning from hard versus soft information (Iyer et al 2009), perceived trustworthiness (Duarte et al. 2010), borrowers' identity claims (Herzenstein et al. 2011b), taste-based discrimination (Pope and Sydnor 2011), and interest rate caps (Rigbi 2011).”
Discrimination in mortgage lending: Evidence from a correspondence experiment☆ (2016, background): “Research by Pope and Sydnor (2011) and Ravina (2012) use pictures to identify race in observational studies of credit markets.”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “We also highlight the interesting study by Pope and Sydnor (2011) on race discrimination in peer-to-peer lending, which is an online market where individual borrowers and lenders directly engage in credit transactions with no intermediary.”
Elected in 100 milliseconds: Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting (2010, background): “Given the rapid and effortless nature of appearance-based inferences, it is not surprising to find that they impact the decisions that people make in a variety of important domains, including mate choice (Olivola et al. 2009), business/finance (Gorn et al. 2008; Naylor 2007; Pope and Sydnor 2008; ”
Race Effects on Ebay (2015, background): “Our study is related not only to the literature on internet auctions but also to a number of recent papers examining race effects in non-auction on-line environments (for example, Pope and Sydnor 2011; Ravina 2008; Doleac and Stein 2010).”
Trust and Credit: The Role of Appearance in Peer-to-peer Lending (2012, result): “The coefficients in Table 8 are consistent with those in Pope and Sydnor (2011).”
Fairness Incentives for Myopic Agents (2017, background): “3Lenders on Prosper must agree to comply with the relevant provisions of the ECOA, but there is still evidence of discrimination; see [14].”
The Visible Host: Does race guide Airbnb rental rates in San Francisco? (2017, background): “An earlier study, Pope and Sydnor (2011) examined the effect a loan applicant’s personal information, including a picture on their acceptance rate for a personal loan at the P2P lending site Prospero.”
Is Crowdfunding Different? Evidence on the Relation between Gender and Funding Success from a German Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform (2014, methodology): “They confirm the results of Pope and Sydnor (2011) and Ravina (2012) with respect to gender.”