Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Benjamin Edelman; Michael Luca; Dan Svirsky (2017) · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-553", tranche="tranche150")

Benjamin Edelman; Michael Luca; Dan Svirsky (2017). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Table 2.

Template assessment

The Table 2 field experiment randomizes guest names and estimates the guest_black coefficient across booking inquiries. There is no before/after panel in the source regression; treating randomized names as adoption dates would be invalid.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.