of themselves. However, these features may also facilitate discrimination based on sellers’ race, gender, age, or other … aspects of appearance. In this paper, we test for racial discrimination against landlords in the online rental marketplace … findings highlight the prevalence of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a …

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 …

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 …