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SUBMITTER: Keuschnigg M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353621 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Keuschnigg Marc M Mutgan Selcan S Hedström Peter P
Science advances 20190130 1
Superlinear growth in cities has been explained as an emergent consequence of increased social interactions in dense urban environments. Using geocoded microdata from Swedish population registers, we remove population composition effects from the scaling relation of wage income to test how much of the previously reported superlinear scaling is truly attributable to increased social interconnectivity in cities. The Swedish data confirm the previously reported scaling relations on the aggregate le ...[more]