Fig. 1: Inter-household social networks.
From: Local Network Interaction as a Mechanism for Wealth Inequality
Panel a displays the conceptualisation behind the network data construction method. We considered two households as connected if they have nominated a common household member in our study timeframe, 2000-2016. Panel b shows the degree distribution of the inter-household social network. Panel c shows the largest connected component, placed and coloured by regions (izigodi). To visually elucidate the substructure of the inter-household social network, we conducted six random walks, each comprising 50 steps, within the largest connected component. Random walks were initiated from randomly selected households.
