4 papers
Feeling Left Behind? Territorial Disadvantage, Well-Being and Cohesion across European Regions
Stefano Maria Iacus, Giuseppe Porro, Haodong Qi +1
Left-behind places are usually identified using economic, demographic and accessibility indicators, but these may not align with well-being and social cohesion. We combine ten year…
Spatial Heterogeneity in Climate Risk and Human Flourishing: An Exploration with Generative AI
Stefano Maria Iacus, Haodong Qi, Devika Jain
Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), enable scalable extraction of spatial information from unstructured text and…
The Human Flourishing Geographic Index: A County-Level Dataset for the United States, 2013--2023
Stefano M. Iacus, Devika Jain, Andrea Nasuto +3
Quantifying human flourishing, a multidimensional construct including happiness, health, purpose, virtue, relationships, and financial stability, is critical for understanding soci…
Learning the Topic, Not the Language: How LLMs Classify Online Immigration Discourse Across Languages
Andrea Nasuto, Stefano Maria Iacus, Francisco Rowe +1
Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for scalable analysis of online discourse. Yet their use in multilingual social science research remains constrained by model s…