"For each 1 percent of all residential units in a neighborhood listed on Airbnb, rents in that neighborhood went up 1.58 percent, Stringer said."

Correlation does not imply causation[1]. Looks to me this is one of the studies that I would label as "shallow" or "problematic".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...