Renting Rooms While being Black
Yet another study for the likes of Stoni to foolishly try refuting
Airbnb hosts discriminate against black guests based on names, study suggests
By Colin Lecher on December 10, 2015 01:15 pm @colinlecher
Airbnb guests with stereotypically "black-sounding" names have a harder time booking a reservation than their white counterparts, a working paper from Harvard Business School researchers suggests.
6,400 MESSAGES SENT FROM FAKE PROFILES
Using data from 6,400 messages sent by fake profiles inquiring about reservations in five cities, the researchers determined that Airbnb guests — who, under the company's system, are approved by hosts — were more likely to have their booking approved if they had names more closely associated with white people. Controlling for other factors, the guests with stereotypically white names received positive responses about 50 percent of the time, compared with 42 percent for their black counterparts.
The names were first drawn from a list of names given to babies born in Massachusetts between 1974 and 1979. Those names were then given out in a survey for people to categorize as "white" or "African American." In the end, for example, a "white" name tested in the study was "Meredith O'Brien," while a "black" name tested was "Rasheed Jackson."
Yet another study for the likes of Stoni to foolishly try refuting
Airbnb hosts discriminate against black guests based on names, study suggests
By Colin Lecher on December 10, 2015 01:15 pm @colinlecher
Airbnb guests with stereotypically "black-sounding" names have a harder time booking a reservation than their white counterparts, a working paper from Harvard Business School researchers suggests.
6,400 MESSAGES SENT FROM FAKE PROFILES
Using data from 6,400 messages sent by fake profiles inquiring about reservations in five cities, the researchers determined that Airbnb guests — who, under the company's system, are approved by hosts — were more likely to have their booking approved if they had names more closely associated with white people. Controlling for other factors, the guests with stereotypically white names received positive responses about 50 percent of the time, compared with 42 percent for their black counterparts.
The names were first drawn from a list of names given to babies born in Massachusetts between 1974 and 1979. Those names were then given out in a survey for people to categorize as "white" or "African American." In the end, for example, a "white" name tested in the study was "Meredith O'Brien," while a "black" name tested was "Rasheed Jackson."
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