A study conducted by Harvard Business School professor Michael Luca and others involving 6,400 hosts of Airbnb properties in the US found that hosts were 16pc less likely to accept a rental request from a user with a black-sounding name than they were to accept a request from a user with a white-sounding name.
Published in Dawn, Business & Finance weekly, January 23rd, 2017
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