Determinants of interaction on Twitter

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“We also found a significant difference in the rankings regarding the position of the college. Students from the top-ranked institutions are 15% more likely to be followed back, compared to those from the lowest-ranked institutions. Another relevant point is that women receive almost 20% more requests to be followed on Twitter than men,” said the researcher.

Sant'Anna draws attention to the limitation of this article in not being able to understand exactly what the reason for the follow-back is, considering that women tend to be professionally vulnerable in the areas of economics, but are still the most followed by professionals in this network.

“In the experiment, we observed that men were more likely to follow women on this social network. However, we were unable to measure the treatment after the vp it email database follow, whether a relationship developed, or what the interests in following were, but the evidence found in our research can provide support for new studies along these lines to be carried out in the future,” he explained.

Economy and diversity
FGV EESP researcher Bruno Ferman recalls that the aim of this study was to verify whether there is discrimination in the behavior of economists when it comes to building their professional networks. However, this starting point came from an internal discussion on issues related to representation and diversity.

“This topic has been discussed in many areas, particularly in academia. There is a lot of research on different types of inequality and how this generates differences in treatment within the profession. Although there are perceptions about this situation, we realized that there was a lack of evidence on the mechanisms that generate this disparity,” said Ferman.