To what extent do personality traits predict wealth in adulthood over and above standard demographic factors? In all 3240 adults the UK completed a Big Five test reported on their property wealth, savings investments, physical valuable items. We also had data age, education, household income gender. Correlations regressions showed that demographics, particularly age were, as expected clearest c...

Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The acceleration of economic reform in the last decade has brought dramatic increases in income and investment opportunities. At the same time, it has also reduced social protections provided by the state welfare system. As a response to these changes urban average household net total weal...

83 Volume 33, Number 2, June 2007 For nearly two decades, the conviction that poverty fuels the spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa has been ubiquitous among epidemiologists and development workers.1–3 In 2005, however, a team of epidemiologists4 published a comment in The Lancet drawing attention to some surprising findings: Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from Kenya and Tanzania appe...

A network induced by wealth is a social network model in which wealth induces individuals to participate as nodes, and every node in the network produces and accumulates wealth utilizing its links. More specifically, at every time step a new node is added to the network, and a link is created between one of the existing nodes and the new node. Innate wealthproducing ability is randomly assigned...