Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Author "Edelman, Benjamin"

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    • Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment 

      Edelman, Benjamin Gordon; Luca, Michael; Svirsky, Daniel Alejandro (American Economic Association, 2017)
      In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination ...