FastCompany covers lab research
Read about our recent work in the FastCompany article on our work with GiveDirectly in Togo Josh Blumenstock, associate professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, first wrote the paper on mapping poverty using satellite and mobile data in 2017, before... Read More →
Paper presented at KDD workshop on Humanitarian Mapping
Our work on “Privacy Guarantees for Personal Mobility Data in Humanitarian Response” will be presented at the KDD workshop on Humanitarian Mapping (https://kdd-humanitarian-mapping.herokuapp.com/). Full citation information below: Kohli, N., Aiken, E., and Blumenstock, J.E. (2020). Privacy Guarantees for Personal Mobility... Read More →
Paper accepted at ICML
Our paper, “Balancing Competing Objectives for Welfare-Aware Machine Learning with Imperfect Data”, was accepted for oral presentation at the International Conference on Machine Learning (IMCL 2020). Full citation below: Rolf, E., Simchowitz, M., Dean, S., Liu, L., Bj{\”o}rkegren, D., Hardt,... Read More →
New grant to study housing insecurity caused by COVID-19
A team led by lab Director Joshua Blumenstock, along with Karen Chapple and Matthew Desmod, has received a grant to investigate and address eviction spikes and displacement risks related to COVID-19. They’re among the first grantees of the newly created... Read More →
NSF CAREER award announced
Lab director Blumenstock was recently awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (Faculty Early Career Development Program). The grant provides 5 years of funding for a new research agenda focused on “Welfare-Centric Machine Learning”. Read more about the award here.
Paper published in American Economic Review
Abstract We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly assigning employees to different varieties of a salary-linked savings account, we find that default enrollment increases participation by 40 percentage points—an effect equivalent to providing a... Read More →