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Two Americas of Well-Being: Divergent Rural-Urban Patterns of Life Satisfaction and Happiness from 2.6 B Social Media Posts
Stefano Maria Iacus, Giuseppe Porro
Using 2.6 billion geolocated social-media posts (2014-2022) and a fine-tuned generative language model, we construct county-level indicators of life satisfaction and happiness for…
Data Innovation in Demography, Migration and Human Mobility
Claudio Bosco, Sara Grubanov-Boskovic, Stefano Iacus +3
With the consolidation of the culture of evidence-based policymaking, the availability of data has become central to policymakers. Nowadays, innovative data sources offer an opport…
Migration patterns, friendship networks, and the diaspora: the potential of Facebook Social Connectedness Index to anticipate displacement patterns induced by Russia invasion of Ukraine in the European Union
Umberto Minora, Martina Belmonte, Claudio Bosco +4
The conflict in Ukraine is causing large-scale displacement in Europe and in the World. Based on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates, more than 7 mi…
The potential of Facebook advertising data for understanding flows of people from Ukraine to the European Union
Umberto Minora, Claudio Bosco, Stefano Iacus +3
This work contributes to the discussion on how innovative data can support a fast crisis response. We use operational data from Facebook to gain useful insights on where people fle…
Forecasting Change in Conflict Fatalities with Dynamic Elastic Net
Fulvio Attinà, Marcello Carammia, Stefano Maria Iacus
This article illustrates an approach to forecasting change in conflict fatalities designed to address the complexity of the drivers and processes of armed conflicts. The design of…
Compliance with restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: Does political partisanship influence behavioural responses?
Stefano Maria Iacus, Marco Scipioni, Spyridon Spyratos +1
The success of public health policies aimed at curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on large-scale and protracted compliance by the public. A series of studies have recentl…