LIEPP's Discrimination and category based policies research group is pleased to convene the workshop: 

Discrimination and Inequalities on online markets

December 15th. 10:00 am - 4:30 pm.

Location: Sciences Po room Goguel, 27 rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris

Mandatory registration. 

Abstract: 

Today, digital platforms account for a growing share of the economy in providing goods and services (classified ads, short-term rentals, car-sharing, freelancing, etc...). These marketplaces do not intervene (or do so only to a very limited extent) when users interact with each others, set their own prices, respond to buyers, or provide evaluations.

We can therefore expect a certain amount of gender and ethnic discrimination on these specific marketplaces. This one-day workshop brings together research that aims to provide evidence of ethnic and gender discrimination on some of these platforms using experimental and scraping methodologies.

Programme: 

10h-10h30: Welcome/coffee

10h30-11h15: Michelangelo Rossi (Telecom Paris)

The Evolution of Discrimination in Online Markets: How the Rise in Anti-Asian Bias Affected Airbnb during the Pandemic

11h15-12h: Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe (VUB)

Ethnic discrimination on the shared short-term rental market of Airbnb

12h-12h45: Mimansa Bairathi (UCL) - zoom

Gender Disparity in Online Reputation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Platform

12h45-14h15: lunch

14h15-15h: Ignacio Berasategui (PSE)

The Price of Trust, Women's Participation and Ethnic Sorting in p2p Markets. Evidence from BlaBlaCar

15h-15h45: Dylan Glover (INSEAD)

Gender differences in screening on online platforms

15h45-16h30: Ozge Demirci (HBS) - zoom

Reducing Discrimination with Information: Evidence from Online Freelancing Platforms