Abstract
Population control policies are proposed and in some places employed as a means towards curbing population growth. This paper is concerned with a disturbing side-effect of such policies, namely, the potential risk of societal fragmentation due to changes in the distribution of family sizes. This effect is illustrated in some simple settings and demonstrated by simulation. In addition, the dependence of societal fragmentation on family size distribution is analyzed. In particular, it is shown that under the studied model, any population control policy that disallows families of 3 or more children incurs the possible risk of societal fragmentation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017 |
Editors | Jana Diesner, Elena Ferrari, Guandong Xu |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
Pages | 9-16 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450349932 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 31 Jul 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 31 Jul 2017 → 3 Aug 2017 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017 |
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Conference
Conference | 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017 |
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Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Sydney |
Period | 31/07/17 → 3/08/17 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
Funding
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Funders | Funder number |
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Israel Science Foundation | 1549/13 |