Adoption of Airbnb pricing feature linked to growing racial disparities
Worldwide: A recent study of over 9000 Airbnb hosts has concluded that the low opt-in rate of an optional pricing algorithm on the home-sharing platform by black hosts is increasing racial disparities in earnings from bookings. The study, carried out by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, USA, centred around Airbnb’s ‘Smart Pricing’ […]