4 papers
Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Social Media: Rural--Urban Patterns in the U.S
Stefano M Iacus, Giuseppe Porro
We analyze a novel large-scale social-media-based measure of U.S. job satisfaction, constructed by applying a fine-tuned large language model to 2.6 billion georeferenced tweets, a…
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…
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…
Rethinking Scale: The Efficacy of Fine-Tuned Open-Source LLMs in Large-Scale Reproducible Social Science Research
Marcello Carammia, Stefano Maria Iacus, Giuseppe Porro
Large Language Models (LLMs) are distinguished by their architecture, which dictates their parameter size and performance capabilities. Social scientists have increasingly adopted…