About the Authors

Sergei Scherbov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population and Just Societies Program, International Institute of Applied Systems and Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Stuart Gietel-Basten

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

stuart.gietelbasten@ku.ac.ae

Affiliations Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Humanities and Social Science, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Dalkhat Ediev

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population and Just Societies Program, International Institute of Applied Systems and Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, North-Caucasian State Academy, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Cherkessk, Russia

Sergey Shulgin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia

Warren Sanderson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population and Just Societies Program, International Institute of Applied Systems and Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Department of Economics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.