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16 papers
Urbanization, economic development, and income distribution dynamics in India
Anand Sahasranaman, Nishanth Kumar, Luis M. A. Bettencourt
India's urbanization is often characterized as particularly challenging and very unequal but systematic empirical analyses, comparable to other nations, have largely been lacking.…
Spread of Covid-19 in urban neighbourhoods and slums of the developing world
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We study the spread of Covid-19 across neighbourhoods of cities in the developing world and find that small numbers of neighbourhoods account for a majority of cases (k-index~0.7).…
Long term dynamics of poverty transitions in India
Anand Sahasranaman
We model the dynamics of poverty using a stochastic model of Geometric Brownian Motion with reallocation (RGBM) and explore both transient and persistent poverty over 1952-2006. We…
Distribution of neighborhood size in cities
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We study the distribution of neighborhoods across a set of 12 global cities and find that the distribution of neighborhood sizes follows exponential decay across all cities under c…
Income distribution and inequality in India: 2014-19
Anand Sahasranaman, Nishanth Kumar
We study the evolution of income in India from 2014-19 and find that while income inequality remains largely consistent over this time, the lower end of the income distribution has…
Poverty in the time of epidemic: A modelling perspective
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We create a network model to study the spread of an epidemic through physically proximate and accidental daily human contacts in a city, and simulate outcomes for two kinds of agen…
Network structure of COVID-19 spread and the lacuna in India's testing strategy
Anand Sahasranaman, Nishanth Kumar
We characterize the network of COVID-19 spread in India and find that the transmission rate is 0.43, with daily case growth driven by individuals who contracted the virus abroad. W…
Life Between the City and the Village: Comparative Analysis of Service Access in Indian Urban Slums
Anand Sahasranaman, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
The emergence of India as an urbanized nation is one of the most significant socioeconomic and political processes of the 21st century. An essential feature of India's urbanization…
Dynamics of reallocation within India's income distribution
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We investigate the nature and extent of reallocation occurring within the Indian income distribution, with a particular focus on the dynamics of the bottom of the distribution. Spe…
A self-consistent assessment of multi-dimensional fitness of cities
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Given the importance of urban sustainability and resilience to the future of our planet, there is a need to better understand the interconnectedness between the social, economic, e…
Economic geography and the scaling of urban and regional income in India
Anand Sahasranaman, Luis M. A. Bettencourt
We undertake an exploration of the economic income (Gross Domestic Product, GDP) of Indian districts and cities based on scaling analyses of the dependence of these quantities on a…
Economic complexity and capabilities of Indian States
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We explore economic competitiveness of Indian states based on the economic complexity algorithm, using a pair of coupled non-linear maps to characterize the Fitness of states and C…
Urban Geography and Scaling of Contemporary Indian Cities
Anand Sahasranaman, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
This paper attempts to create a first comprehensive analysis of the integrated characteristics of contemporary Indian cities, using scaling and geographic analysis over a set of di…
Wealth and Identity: The dynamics of dual segregation
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We extend our model of wealth segregation to incorporate migration and study the tendencies towards dual segregation - segregation due to identity (migrants vs. residents) and segr…
Cooperative Dynamics of Neighborhood Economic Status in Cities
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We significantly extend our earlier variant of the Schelling model, incorporating a neighborhood Potential function as well as an agent wealth gain function to study the long term…
Dynamics of Transformation from Segregation to Mixed Wealth Cities
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We model the dynamics of the Schelling model for agents described simply by a continuously distributed variable - wealth. Agents move to neighborhoods where their wealth is not les…