The effect of population control policies on societal fragmentation

Zvi Lotker; David Peleg

doi:10.1145/3110025.3110029

The effect of population control policies on societal fragmentation

Zvi Lotker, David Peleg

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1145/3110025.3110029
State	Published - 31 Jul 2017
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

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Name	Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017

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Conference	9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	31/07/17 → 3/08/17

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Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems

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Lotker, Z., & Peleg, D. (2017). The effect of population control policies on societal fragmentation. In J. Diesner, E. Ferrari, & G. Xu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017 (pp. 9-16). (Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3110025.3110029

Lotker, Zvi ; Peleg, David. / The effect of population control policies on societal fragmentation. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017. editor / Jana Diesner ; Elena Ferrari ; Guandong Xu. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. pp. 9-16 (Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017).

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Lotker, Z & Peleg, D 2017, The effect of population control policies on societal fragmentation. in J Diesner, E Ferrari & G Xu (eds), Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 9-16, 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017, Sydney, Australia, 31/07/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3110025.3110029

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Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017. ed. / Jana Diesner; Elena Ferrari; Guandong Xu. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. p. 9-16 (Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017).

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Lotker Z, Peleg D. The effect of population control policies on societal fragmentation. In Diesner J, Ferrari E, Xu G, editors, Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2017. p. 9-16. (Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017). doi: 10.1145/3110025.3110029

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