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Births are difficult to predict even with rich survey and full-population register data
Elizaveta Sivak, Emily M. Cantrell, Thomas Emery +109
Major life events have proven difficult to predict. Does this reflect limits of theory, data, and algorithms, or the large role of chance? We examine one outcome - having a child w…
The marginal majority effect: when social influence produces lock-in
Alexandros Gelastopoulos, Pantelis P. Analytis, Gaël Le Mens +1
People are influenced by the choices of others, a phenomenon observed across contexts in the social and behavioral sciences. Social influence can lock in an initial popularity adva…
Inferring cumulative advantage from longitudinal records
Alexandros Gelastopoulos, Lucas Sage, Arnout van de Rijt
Inequality in human success may emerge through endogenous success-breeds-success dynamics but may also originate in pre-existing differences in talent. It is widely recognized that…