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Joshua Evan Blumenstock

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First Name:Joshua
Middle Name:Evan
Last Name:Blumenstock
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RePEc Short-ID:pbl237
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http://www.jblumenstock.com

Affiliation

(90%) University of California, Berkeley, School of Information

http://ischool.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
102 South Hall

(4%) Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (United States)
http://cega.berkeley.edu/
RePEc:edi:cgbrkus (more details at EDIRC)

(3%) Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany
http://www.iza.org/
RePEc:edi:izaaade (more details at EDIRC)

(3%) Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.povertyactionlab.org/
RePEc:edi:jpmitus (more details at EDIRC)

Research output

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Working papers

  1. Blumenstock, Joshua & Callen, Mike & Ghani, Tarek & González, Roberto, 2024. "Violence and financial decisions: evidence from mobile money in Afghanistan," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117303, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  2. Emily Aiken & Suzanne Bellue & Joshua Blumenstock & Dean Karlan & Christopher R. Udry, 2023. "Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces: Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo," NBER Working Papers 31751, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Daniel Bjorkegren & Joshua E. Blumenstock & Samsun Knight, 2022. "(Machine) Learning What Policies Value," Papers 2206.00727, arXiv.org.
  4. Emily Aiken & Guadalupe Bedoya & Joshua Blumenstock & Aidan Coville, 2022. "Program Targeting with Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data: Evidence from an Anti-Poverty Intervention in Afghanistan," Papers 2206.11400, arXiv.org.
  5. Daniel Bjorkegren & Joshua Blumenstock & Omowunmi Folajimi-Senjobi & Jacqueline Mauro & Suraj R. Nair, 2022. "Instant Loans Can Lift Subjective Well-Being: A Randomized Evaluation of Digital Credit in Nigeria," Papers 2202.13540, arXiv.org.
  6. Oeindrila Dube & Joshua Blumenstock & Michael Callen, 2022. "Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan," NBER Working Papers 30694, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Blumenstock, Joshua & Aiken, Emily & Bellue, Suzanne & Udry, Christopher & Karlan, Dean, 2021. "Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance," CEPR Discussion Papers 16385, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  8. Guanghua Chi & Han Fang & Sourav Chatterjee & Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2021. "Micro-Estimates of Wealth for all Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Papers 2104.07761, arXiv.org.
  9. Matthew Olckers & Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2020. "Gamblers Learn from Experience," SoDa Laboratories Working Paper Series 2020-07, Monash University, SoDa Laboratories.
  10. Cornelia Ilin & Sébastien E. Annan-Phan & Xiao Hui Tai & Shikhar Mehra & Solomon M. Hsiang & Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2020. "Public Mobility Data Enables COVID-19 Forecasting and Management at Local and Global Scales," NBER Working Papers 28120, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Blumenstock, Joshua & Dillon, Brian & Aker, Jenny, 2020. "How Important is the Yellow Pages? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania," CEPR Discussion Papers 14489, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  12. Daniel Bjorkegren & Joshua E. Blumenstock & Samsun Knight, 2020. "Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning," Papers 2004.03865, arXiv.org.
  13. Blumenstock, Joshua & Chi, Guanghua & Tan, Xu, 2019. "Migration and the Value of Social Networks," CEPR Discussion Papers 13611, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  14. Toomet,Ott & Blumenstock,Joshua Evan & Scherer,Thomas & Herskowitz,Sylvan Rene & Ghani,Tarek F. & Kapstein,Ethan B., 2018. "Insecurity and industrial organization : evidence from Afghanistan," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8301, The World Bank.
  15. Callen, Michael & Blumenstock, Joshua & Ghani, Tarek, 2017. "Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan," CEPR Discussion Papers 12142, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  16. Callen, Michael & Blumenstock, Joshua & Ghani, Tarek, 2016. "Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Present Bias and Default Effects in Afghanistan," CEPR Discussion Papers 11400, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  17. Joshua Blumenstock & Nathan Eagle & Marcel Fafchamps, 2011. "Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone Network: Evidence from Rwanda," CSAE Working Paper Series 2011-19, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

Articles

  1. Isabella S. Smythe & Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2022. "Geographic microtargeting of social assistance with high-resolution poverty maps," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119(32), pages 2120025119-, August.
  2. Emily Aiken & Suzanne Bellue & Dean Karlan & Chris Udry & Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2022. "Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid," Nature, Nature, vol. 603(7903), pages 864-870, March.
  3. Guanghua Chi & Han Fang & Sourav Chatterjee & Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2022. "Microestimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119(3), pages 2113658119-, January.
  4. Xiao Hui Tai & Shikhar Mehra & Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2022. "Mobile phone data reveal the effects of violence on internal displacement in Afghanistan," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 6(5), pages 624-634, May.
  5. Guanghua Chi & Fengyang Lin & Guangqing Chi & Joshua Blumenstock, 2020. "A general approach to detecting migration events in digital trace data," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(10), pages 1-17, October.
  6. Joshua Blumenstock & Michael Callen & Tarek Ghani, 2018. "Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 108(10), pages 2868-2901, October.
  7. Joshua Blumenstock, 2018. "Don’t forget people in the use of big data for development," Nature, Nature, vol. 561(7722), pages 170-172, September.
  8. Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2018. "Estimating Economic Characteristics with Phone Data," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 108, pages 72-76, May.
  9. Blumenstock, Joshua E. & Eagle, Nathan & Fafchamps, Marcel, 2016. "Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 157-181.

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NEP Fields

NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 19 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (9) 2016-07-30 2019-04-01 2020-07-13 2020-11-16 2020-11-23 2021-08-23 2022-05-09 2022-08-22 2022-12-05. Author is listed
  2. NEP-BIG: Big Data (7) 2019-04-01 2020-04-20 2021-04-26 2021-08-23 2022-07-25 2022-08-22 2023-11-06. Author is listed
  3. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (7) 2016-07-30 2017-07-23 2017-07-23 2019-12-23 2020-04-20 2020-07-13 2022-12-05. Author is listed
  4. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (5) 2020-04-20 2021-04-26 2021-08-23 2022-07-25 2022-08-22. Author is listed
  5. NEP-DEV: Development (4) 2011-10-22 2021-04-26 2022-05-09 2022-08-22
  6. NEP-MFD: Microfinance (3) 2019-12-23 2020-07-13 2022-12-05
  7. NEP-AFR: Africa (2) 2011-10-22 2022-05-09
  8. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (2) 2016-07-30 2017-07-23
  9. NEP-NET: Network Economics (2) 2011-10-22 2019-04-01
  10. NEP-CIS: Confederation of Independent States (1) 2011-10-22
  11. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (1) 2023-01-02
  12. NEP-FDG: Financial Development and Growth (1) 2022-05-09
  13. NEP-FLE: Financial Literacy and Education (1) 2022-12-05
  14. NEP-FOR: Forecasting (1) 2020-12-21
  15. NEP-GTH: Game Theory (1) 2020-04-20
  16. NEP-HAP: Economics of Happiness (1) 2022-05-09
  17. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (1) 2023-11-06
  18. NEP-ICT: Information and Communication Technologies (1) 2019-04-01
  19. NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2019-04-01
  20. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (1) 2021-08-23
  21. NEP-MIG: Economics of Human Migration (1) 2019-04-01
  22. NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (1) 2022-12-05
  23. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2019-04-01
  24. NEP-SPO: Sports and Economics (1) 2020-11-16
  25. NEP-UPT: Utility Models and Prospect Theory (1) 2019-04-01
  26. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2019-04-01

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