'Binge' drinking in the UK: a social network phenomenon
| dc.creator | Ormerod, Paul | |
| dc.creator | Wiltshire, Greg | |
| dc.date | 2008-06-19 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:45:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:45:35Z | |
| dc.description | We analyse the recent rapid growth of 'binge' drinking in the UK. This means the consumption of large amounts of alcohol, especially by young people, leading to serious anti-social and criminal behaviour in urban centres. We show how a simple agent-based model, based on binary choice with externalities, combined with a small amount of survey data can explain the phenomenon. We show that the increase in binge drinking is a fashion-related phenomenon, with imitative behaviour spreading across socila networks The results show that a small world network, rather than a random or scale free, offers the best description of the key aspects of the data | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3176 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3176 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/163243 | |
| dc.subject | Physics and Society | |
| dc.title | 'Binge' drinking in the UK: a social network phenomenon | |
| dc.type | text |