Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination

This paper analyzes millions of credit card transaction records during several months for tens of thousands of individuals from two different countries. The study shows that, purchase patterns are strongly correlated with important societal indices such as socioeconomic status and political inclinat...

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Main Authors:	Dong, Xiaowen, Jahani, Eaman, Morales, Alfredo J., Bozkaya, Burçin, Lepri, Bruno, Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:	PURCHASE PATTERNS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS POLITICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR URBAN ECONOMICS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36117

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spelling	okr-10986-361172021-08-17T14:21:30Z Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination Dong, Xiaowen Jahani, Eaman Morales, Alfredo J. Bozkaya, Burçin Lepri, Bruno Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’ PURCHASE PATTERNS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS POLITICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR URBAN ECONOMICS This paper analyzes millions of credit card transaction records during several months for tens of thousands of individuals from two different countries. The study shows that, purchase patterns are strongly correlated with important societal indices such as socioeconomic status and political inclination. The results suggest the possibility of understanding and predicting the evolution of such societal indices from purchase behavioral patterns, potentially at high temporal and spatial resolutions. 2021-08-13T19:42:56Z 2021-08-13T19:42:56Z 2020-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36117 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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topic	PURCHASE PATTERNS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS POLITICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR URBAN ECONOMICS
spellingShingle	PURCHASE PATTERNS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS POLITICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR URBAN ECONOMICS Dong, Xiaowen Jahani, Eaman Morales, Alfredo J. Bozkaya, Burçin Lepri, Bruno Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’ Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination
description	This paper analyzes millions of credit card transaction records during several months for tens of thousands of individuals from two different countries. The study shows that, purchase patterns are strongly correlated with important societal indices such as socioeconomic status and political inclination. The results suggest the possibility of understanding and predicting the evolution of such societal indices from purchase behavioral patterns, potentially at high temporal and spatial resolutions.
format	Journal Article
author	Dong, Xiaowen Jahani, Eaman Morales, Alfredo J. Bozkaya, Burçin Lepri, Bruno Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’
author_facet	Dong, Xiaowen Jahani, Eaman Morales, Alfredo J. Bozkaya, Burçin Lepri, Bruno Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’
author_sort	Dong, Xiaowen
title	Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination
title_short	Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination
title_full	Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination
title_fullStr	Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination
title_full_unstemmed	Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination
title_sort	purchase patterns, socioeconomic status, and political inclination
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2021
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36117
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Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination

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