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Full text of the study is here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6264/1073.full http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6264/1073.full

• kristopolous 11y ago
  Do you know what "wealth" is academically? (I don't) How much of it access to capital (credit worthiness), ownership of property, influence over the commons (political power)? The last one is tricky. If one society says say, all water is privatized and you need x amount for your factory then you purchase it. If another says all water is communal, then you need to assuage the community to permit you x amount. At the end you have the effectively the same thing and these two people have the same "water wealth". Measuring generalized wealth quantitatively however, I don't know what that means.
  • magicalist 11y ago
    Your answer is in the study[1] (see section 1D) which was modeled to align broadly with the Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey[2] [1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2015/11/24/350.6264.1073.DC1/Blumenstock.SM.pdf http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2015/11/24/350.6264.... [2] http://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-FR259-DHS-Final-Reports.cfm http://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-FR259-DHS-Fin...
    • kristopolous 11y ago
      Awesome ... I have my reading for this evening. Thanks.
  • jonesb6 11y ago
    Reminds me of some post talking about a forum in China where people tried to one-up themselves with how much wealth they had. * First guy showed some cash * Second guy showed a car * Third guy showed a bank balance * Fourth guy showed equity in some company * Fifth guy showed a government document entitling him rights to some natural resource * Sixth guy just showed an invitation to some private gathering of the political elite. Everyone shut up after the sixth guy.