Paper published in Science
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Date21 Dec 2018
Prof. Blumenstock’s paper, The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks, was published in the current issue of Science.
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NeurIPS ML4D keynote
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Date08 Dec 2018
Prof. Blumenstock will be giving a keynote address at the NeurIPS workshop on Machine Learning for the Developing World (ML4D) in Montreal.
Paper published in American Economic Review
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Date27 Sep 2018
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
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Date22 Sep 2018
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
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Date20 Sep 2018
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
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Date23 Jul 2018
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... Read More →
Paper published in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings
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Date02 Jun 2018
Dr. Blumenstock’s paper, “Estimating Economic Characteristics with Phone Data“, was published in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings
Open postdoc position!
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Date11 Dec 2017
Want to do research at the intersection of machine learning and economic development? Click here for details. We will begin reviewing applications on January 15.