Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (by Joshua Blumenstock, Michael Callen, and Tarek Ghani) was published in the American Economic Review.

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Raza Khan and Joshua Blumenstock have had a paper accepted at the NIPS 2017 workshop on Machine Learning for the Developing World: Khan, MR, and Blumenstock, JE (2017).... Read More →

The Okawa Foundation has recognized the value of Dr. Blumenstock’s work by awarding him one of eight Okawa Research Grants.

Three papers by lab members were accepted for publication at the The 9th International ACM/IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2017), to be... Read More →

Research on “Community Cellular Networks” in the Philippines was selected by the Vodafone Foundation as a finalist for their Wireless Innovation Project. Read more about... Read More →

Dr. Blumenstock and Dr. Jonathan Robinson (UCSC) are leading a new initiative on digital credit in developing countries. The Digital Credit Observatory is supported by... Read More →