Two papers published in Journal of Development Economics
Two research papers written by lab members were published in the Journal of Development Economics. They both study the extent to which digital trace data can be used to in program monitoring and impact evaluation.
Best paper at CVPR EarthVision 2025
GOL fellow Ando Shah’s paper on foundation models for earth observation that can work with data from any satellite, wins best paper at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) EarthVision (June 2025).
Constenla-Villoslada’s paper published in PNAS
Ph.D. student Susana Constenla-Villoslada is the lead author on a paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Congrats Susana! Significance As the number and share of people suffering from food insecurity worldwide has risen over... Read More →
Google.org invests in GOL
GOL is proud to participate in Google.org’s AI Collaborative on Food Security
GOL partners with World Food Programme in Haiti
We are excited to launch a collaboration with the World Food Programme in Haiti, to test innovative approaches to humanitarian response during severe crises. Stay tuned for results!
Lab funded by Jameel Observatory
The Jameel Observatory has generously provided support for the Lab’s research on “Improved Early Warning of Food Insecurity”, led by PhD student Susana Constenla-Villoslada.
Nitin Kohli’s work with UNHCR featured by Harvard OpenDP
Nitin Kohli’s collaboration with UNHCR to share refugee data in a privacy-preserving manner was featured in Harvard OpenDP’s news update. The article describes how advances in privacy-enhancing technologies can expand access to new datasets that could not be previously shared... Read More →
Public launch of interactive poverty maps
GOL has publicly released extremely high-resolution poverty maps, available for free at https://www.povertymaps.net/
Lab’s research featured in Nature
Research by GOL was featured in the Nature article, “Can AI help beat poverty? Researchers test ways to aid the poorest people.” The article describes the lab’s work with the Government of Togo, and provides some perspective the role of... Read More →
Paper published in Review of Economic Studies
Blumenstock’s work with lab alum Guanghua Chi, and Xu Tan, was published in the Review of Economic Studies. Migration and the Value of Social Networks How do social networks influence the decision to migrate? Prior work suggests two distinct mechanisms... Read More →