The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden

The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden

To investigate whether there is unequal treatment for ethnic minorities in the sharing economy this paper conducts a field experiment on Airbnb in Sweden. The key findings report that inquiries from guests with Arabic-sounding names are 17 percentage points less likely to receive a booking invitatio...

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Main Author: Farrahi, Nima
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2019
Subjects:
The Sharing Economy
Field Experiment
Audit Study
Ethnic Discrimination
Social Class
Economics
Nationalekonomi
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388843
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spelling ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-uu-3888432019-08-08T04:36:27ZThe Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in SwedenengFarrahi, NimaUppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen2019The Sharing EconomyField ExperimentAudit StudyEthnic DiscriminationSocial ClassEconomicsNationalekonomiTo investigate whether there is unequal treatment for ethnic minorities in the sharing economy this paper conducts a field experiment on Airbnb in Sweden. The key findings report that inquiries from guests with Arabic-sounding names are 17 percentage points less likely to receive a booking invitation compared to guests with Swedish-sounding names. The discrimination is robust across host and listing characteristics. Furthermore, the results show that being associated with a lower social class decreases the probability of receiving a booking invitation for guests with Arabic-sounding names but not for guests with Swedish-sounding names, suggesting that the signal of social class is stronger for guests with Arabic-sounding names. Student thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388843application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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topic The Sharing Economy
Field Experiment
Audit Study
Ethnic Discrimination
Social Class
Economics
Nationalekonomi
spellingShingle The Sharing Economy
Field Experiment
Audit Study
Ethnic Discrimination
Social Class
Economics
Nationalekonomi
Farrahi, Nima
The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden
description To investigate whether there is unequal treatment for ethnic minorities in the sharing economy this paper conducts a field experiment on Airbnb in Sweden. The key findings report that inquiries from guests with Arabic-sounding names are 17 percentage points less likely to receive a booking invitation compared to guests with Swedish-sounding names. The discrimination is robust across host and listing characteristics. Furthermore, the results show that being associated with a lower social class decreases the probability of receiving a booking invitation for guests with Arabic-sounding names but not for guests with Swedish-sounding names, suggesting that the signal of social class is stronger for guests with Arabic-sounding names.
author Farrahi, Nima
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title The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden
title_short The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden
title_full The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden
title_fullStr The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden
title_full_unstemmed The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden
title_sort sharing economy and discrimination : evidence from a field experiment in sweden
publisher Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen
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