Luca, Michael; Pronkina, Elizaveta; Rossi, Michelangelo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We present evidence that discrimination against Asian-American Airbnb users sharply increased at the start of the COVID … guests relative to hosts with distinctively White names. In contrast, we do not see spikes in discrimination against Black or … Hispanic hosts. Our results suggest that the rise in anti-Asian sentiment in 2020 translated to discrimination in economic …