Money walks: implicit mobility behavior and financial well-being

Singh, Vivek Kumar and Bozkaya, Burçin and Pentland, Alex (2015) Money walks: implicit mobility behavior and financial well-being. PLoS One, 10 (8). ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Traditional financial decision systems (e.g. credit) had to rely on explicit individual traits like age, gender, job type, and marital status, while being oblivious to spatio-temporal mobility or the habits of the individual involved. Emerging trends in geo-aware and mobile payment systems, and the resulting “big data,” present an opportunity to study human consumption patterns across space and time. Taking inspiration from animal behavior studies that have reported significant interconnections between animal spatio-temporal “foraging” behavior and their life outcomes, we analyzed a corpus of hundreds of thousands of human economic transactions and found that financial outcomes for individuals are intricately linked with their spatio-temporal traits like exploration, engagement, and elasticity. Such features yield models that are 30% to 49% better at predicting future financial difficulties than the comparable demographic models.
Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Article Number: e0136628
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Sabancı Business School > Operations Management and Information Systems
Depositing User: Burçin Bozkaya
Date Deposited: 22 Dec 2015 12:28
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 09:27
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/28254

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