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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farrahi, Nima
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2019
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388843