News – GOL

Paper accepted at Journal of Political Economy

Date04 Mar 2026

A paper by Joshua Blumenstock, Oeindrila Dube, and Michael Callen was recently accepted at the Journal of Political Economy. Measuring Religion from Behavior: Violence, Economic...

We’re recruiting a postdoc!

Date18 Feb 2026

Know anyone with strong econ/CS skills who is interested in working on pressing, real-world problems? We’re recruiting a postoc to spend two years at UC...

Blumenstock co-chairs new initiative to test and scale AI innovations to fight poverty

Date12 Feb 2026

The age of AI has brought wide-ranging optimism and skepticism about its effects on society. To realize AI’s full potential, Project AI Evidence (PAIE) will...

Paper presented at ASSA Annual Meeting

Date04 Jan 2026

A research paper by lab PhD student Merritt Smith, lab alumnus Emily Aiken, lab director Joshua Blumenstock, and Sveta Milusheva (World Bank), was presented at...

GOL featured in Forbes magazine

Date18 Aug 2025

Forget BLS. Here’s How To Take The Economy’s Temperature Without Using Government Data Read the full article here …Joshua Blumenstock, the Director of the Global...