About the Authors

Sebastián Bustos

Affiliations Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles Gomez

Affiliation Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ricardo Hausmann

Affiliations Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

César A. Hidalgo

hidalgo@mit.edu

Affiliations Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, The MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors received commercial funding through the Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development Chair, Standard Bank and Santo Domingo Foundation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAH SB. Performed the experiments: CAH SB. Analyzed the data: CAH SB. Wrote the paper: CAH SB RH CG.