Paper presented at ASSA Annual Meeting
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 this year’s ASSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Abstract: We provide systematic evidence on the potential... Read More →
GOL featured in Forbes magazine
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 Opportunity Lab and the co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University... Read More →
VoxDev article published
Our article was published on VoxDev, titled, “Measuring poverty using mobile phone data: Implications for targeting and impact evaluation.” Lead: In settings where reliable data on poverty is difficult to come by, non-traditional data sources such as mobile phone metadata... Read More →
Two papers published in Journal of Development Economics
Two research papers written by lab members were published in the Journal of Development Economics. They both study the extent to which digital trace data can be used to in program monitoring and impact evaluation.