Editor’s Note: In June 2016, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society hosted its third Junior Scholars Forum. The following article covers a not-yet-published research paper presented there. To learn more about the research, readers can contact the paper's author, Yotala Oszkay Febres-Cordero ([email protected]). Since its founding in 2008, the online home-rental platform Airbnb has become an exemplar of the so-called sharing economy. Like other companies in that category, Airbnb…

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