Some Airbnb hosts have a race problem, study says

December 12, 2015
Aaron Polmeer

By Lulu Chang

A new working paper from Harvard Business School suggests that Airbnb guests with “black-sounding” names are 16 percent less likely to be accepted into a room than their white counterparts.

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