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Economics with policy - international seminar - David Garcia
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David Garcia /Complexity Science Hub Vienna/
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.
Call for Papers - The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism - 29-30 November 2021
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 July, 2021; abstracts (max. 300 words) are expected via easychair system.
- 07/05/2021 | 14:47
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Halpern 70 conference - 17 June 2021
Held in a hybrid form: offline venue: Institute of Economics - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies /1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4./ and online (zoom). Please register here: kti.titkarsag@krtk.hu until 10th of June.
- 06/01/2021 | 15:23
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Call for Papers - 12th Annual Financial Market Liquidity Conference - Budapest, Hungary 11-12th November 2021
The Department of Finance, Corvinus University of Budapest and the Game Theory Research Group, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies are organizing the Annual Financial Market Liquidity Conference for the twelfth time. This year, Corvinus University of Budapest hosts the conference both onsite as well as on a virtual conferencing platform allowing for a hybrid and flexible format.
- 05/06/2021 | 14:20
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