Institute for Data, Systems, and Society: Recent submissions

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    • Partnership Ties Shape Friendship Networks: A Dynamic Social Network Study 

      Stadtfeld, Christoph; Pentland, Alex (Social Forces, 2015-06-26)
      Partnership ties shape friendship networks through different social forces. First, partnership ties drive clustering in friendship networks: individuals who are in a partnership tend to have common friends and befriend ...

    • Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification 

      Gao, Jian; Jun, Bogang; Pentland, Alex; Zhou, Tao; Hidalgo, César A. (Regional Studies, 2021-03-31)
      Industrial diversification depends on spillovers from related industries and nearby regions, yet their interaction remains largely unclear. We study economic diversification in China during the period 1990–2015 and present ...

    • COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour 

      Heroy, Samuel; Loaiza, Isabella; Pentland, Alex; O’Clery, Neave (Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2021-03-31)
      Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit a natural experiment whereby Colombian cities implemented varied lockdown policies ...