Airbnb’s Pricing Algorithm Has Unintentionally Made The Racial Revenue Gap Worse
The Horizons Tracker
AUGUST 10, 2021
The analysis reveals that while the tool did indeed manage to narrow the revenue gap between White and Black hosts, it actually made things worse overall because fewer Black hosts were using the algorithm. The analysis showed that prior to the introduction of the algorithm, White hosts were earning around $12.16
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