Encyclopedia of Distances is the result of re-writing and extending our Dictionary of
Distances published in 2006 (and put online http://www. sciencedirect. com/science/book …

This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural
transmission and socialization. It has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics …

This book comes out of need and urgency (expressed especially in areas of Information
Retrieval with respect to Image, Audio, Internet and Biology) to have a working tool to …

This paper quantitatively analyzes the stability and breakup of nations. The tradeoff between
increasing returns in the provision of public goods and the costs of greater cultural …

Social norms are customary or ideal forms of behavior to which individuals in a group try to
conform. From an analytical standpoint, the key feature of social norms is that they induce a …

We propose an alternative method for measuring intergenerational mobility. Traditional
methods based on panel data provide measurements that are scarce, difficult to compare …

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In this chapter we consider a special class of metrics defined on some normed structures, as
the norm of the difference between two given elements. This structure can be a group (with a …

We propose a new methodology for measuring intergenerational mobility in economic
wellbeing. Our method is based on the joint distribution of surnames and economic …