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The power law in human mobility is a mixture artifact: evidence from a pandemic natural experiment
Leo Ferres, Bruno Gonçalves
For nearly two decades, human mobility has been read as scale free. Displacement distributions follow heavy tails that look like truncated power laws, traced to individual Lévy fli…
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Correcting socioeconomic bias in mobile phone mobility estimates using multilevel regression and poststratification
Leo Ferres, Laetitia Gauvin
Call detail records (CDR) from mobile phone networks are widely used to study human mobility however CDR data from a single mobile operator are inherently biased because the observ…
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Unequal changes in commuting patterns across socio-economic strata in response to pandemic restrictions
Cristiano Marinelli, Leo Ferres, Niccolò Comini +2
Commuting patterns are a central component of urban dynamics and many societal activities. Exogenous shocks, such as a pandemic, might drastically modify them inducing heterogeneou…