Paper published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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 mobile phone activity. We first develop an approach to estimate the geographic footprint of firms... 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 →