This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti(or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important driver of low school attendance and ch...

Nature has presented us a wide variety of fascinating collective behaviors in animals – birds flying in flocks, fish swim in shoals and wild horses move in herds. A number of models are proposed in order to understand the origin of collective behavior and reveal the underlining physics. In this paper, two theoretical models are reviewed: the discrete SPP model and the continuum hydrodynamic mod...

The frequencies of collective behavior are getting higher in virtual communities. Most studies regarding collective behavior on Internet focuses on investigating the behavior per se, and few are addressing the contributing factors and the moderating effects of the community platforms. Even if a swarm of people gathering and interacting on virtual communities, they are just one single person sit...

Group-living animals often exhibit complex collective behaviors that emerge through the non-linear dynamics of social interactions between individuals. Previous studies have shown that it is possible to influence the collective decision-making process of groups of insects by integrating them with autonomous multi-robot systems. However, generating robot controller models for this particular tas...

In this paper, we adopt the network synchronization to measure the collective behavior in the financial market, and then analyze the factors that affect the collective behavior. Based on the data from the Chinese financial market, we find that the clustering coefficient, the average shortest path length and the volatility fluctuation have a positive effect on the collective behavior respectivel...