UC Berkeley features Blumenstock on “101 of Ending Extreme Poverty (in 101 Seconds)”
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Date09 Jul 2026
Link to youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndjmR5Iwpgs&t=1s
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Paper accepted at American Economic Review
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Date04 Jun 2026
Manipulation-Robust Prediction, by Joshua Blumenstock, Dan Bjorkegren, and Samsun Knight was recently accepted at the American Economic Review. An increasing number of decisions are guided by... Read More →
Paper accepted at Journal of Political Economy
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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... Read More →
We’re recruiting a postdoc!
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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... Read More →
Blumenstock co-chairs new initiative to test and scale AI innovations to fight poverty
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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... Read More →
A bold calculation: What would it cost to end extreme poverty worldwide?
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Date03 Feb 2026
Read the full article here Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action finds that... Read More →
Paper published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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Date01 Feb 2026
Abstract: We provide empirical evidence on how insecurity affects firm behavior by linking data on deadly terrorist attacks in Afghanistan to geolocated data on corporate... Read More →
Paper presented at ASSA Annual Meeting
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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... Read More →