“Analyzing gender inequality through large-scale Facebook advertising data”


Nov 15, 2018 | 15:0017:00

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The talk by David Garcia is part of the international seminar “Economics with policy”, organized by the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.

The talk takes place in conference room No. K11-12, ground floor.

 

 

 

Abstract

 

Online social media are information resources that can have a transformative power in society. While the Web was envisioned as an equalizing force that allows everyone to access information, the digital divide prevents large amounts of people from being present online. Online social media, in particular, are prone to gender inequality, an important issue given the link between social media use and employment. Understanding gender inequality in social media is a challenging task due to the necessity of data sources that can provide large-scale measurements across multiple countries.

Here, we show how the Facebook Gender Divide (FGD), a metric based on aggregated statistics of more than 1.4 billion users in 217 countries, explains various aspects of worldwide gender inequality. Our analysis shows that the FGD encodes gender equality indices in education, health, and economic opportunity. We find gender differences in network externalities that suggest that using social media has an added value for women. Furthermore, we find that low values of the FGD are associated with increases in economic gender equality.

Our results suggest that online social networks, while suffering evident gender imbalance, may lower the barriers that women have to access to informational resources and help to narrow the economic gender gap.

 

 

Details

Date
Nov 15, 2018
Time
15:00—17:00
Website
http://www.krtk.mta.hu/our-news/?year=2018&month=11&day=15

Venue

MTA Research House
4 Tóth Kálmán street
Budapest,1097
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