https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2102.13150/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216613urn:hackerpapers:mention:2102.13150:28216613Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:03:51 GMT<p>If interested, a link to the 19-page study paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13150</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2102.13150/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.soc-phhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216542urn:hackerpapers:mention:2102.13150:28216542Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:50:17 GMT<p>From the cited paper [1]: &gt; We show that income in the least wealthy decile (10%) scales close to linearly with city population, while income in the most wealthy decile scale with a significantly superlinear exponent &gt; For the poorest income deciles, cities have no positive effect over the null expectation of a linear increase &gt; we find that mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis of income distributions all increase with city size. &gt; the Kullback–Leibler divergence between a city’s income distribution and that of the largest city decreases with city population, suggesting the overall shape of…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2102.13150/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.soc-ph