12 papers
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…