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physics.soc-ph2024

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.…

physics.soc-ph2020

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).…

physics.soc-ph2020

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…

physics.soc-ph2020

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…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 10 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 4 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2019

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…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 7 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2018

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…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 89 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 12 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 14 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 34 cited

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…