Paper published in American Economic Review
Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (by Joshua Blumenstock, Michael Callen, and Tarek Ghani) was published in the American Economic Review.
Article published in Nature
Dr. Blumenstock’s article, “Don’t forget people in the use of big data for development,” was published in the journal Nature
Blumenstock receives Hellman Award
Prof. Blumenstock was named as a 2018 Hellman Fellow for his project, “Evaluating Community Cellular Networks: How Does Mobile Connectivity Affect Isolated Communities?”
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 →
Paper published in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings
Dr. Blumenstock’s paper, “Estimating Economic Characteristics with Phone Data“, was published in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings
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Lab research featured on Bloomberg
Listen to the full interview with Dr. Blumenstock on the most recent Bloomberg Benchmark podcast
Paper accepted at NIPS workshop
Raza Khan and Joshua Blumenstock have had a paper accepted at the NIPS 2017 workshop on Machine Learning for the Developing World: Khan, MR, and Blumenstock, JE (2017). Determinants of Mobile Money Adoption in Pakistan, The Thirty-first Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems... Read More →
Blumenstock awarded Okawa Foundation Prize
The Okawa Foundation has recognized the value of Dr. Blumenstock’s work by awarding him one of eight Okawa Research Grants.
Three papers accepted at ICTD 2017 conference
Three papers by lab members were accepted for publication at the The 9th International ACM/IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2017), to be held in Lahore, Pakistan. ICTD is the premiere venue for academic researchers working on ICT’s... Read More →