Aguiar, Luis; Waldfogel, Joel; Waldfogel, Sarah B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. While bias is inherently difficult to measure, we identify a context within the music industry that is amenable to bias … against women. Using data on Spotify curators' rank of songs on New Music Friday playlists in 2017, we find that Spotify's New … Music Friday rankings favor independent-label music, along with some evidence of bias in favor of music by women. Despite …