3 papers
cs.SI2026
Social Network Structure, Wealth, and Wealth Inequality Across Cultures
Eleanor A. Power, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Samuel Bowles +57
Despite theory tying wealth inequality to social structure, empirical evidence has been limited to a few studies based on online social media data. This study uses a very different…
physics.soc-ph2017
Sequences of purchases in credit card data reveal life styles in urban populations
Riccardo Di Clemente, Miguel Luengo-Oroz, Matias Travizano +3
Zipf-like distributions characterize a wide set of phenomena in physics, biology, economics and social sciences. In human activities, Zipf-laws describe for example the frequency o…
econ.GN2016
A non-equilibrium formulation of food security resilience
Matteo Smerlak, Bapu Vaitla
Resilience, the ability to recover from adverse events ("shocks"), is of fundamental importance to food security. This is especially true in poor countries, where basic needs are f…