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Joshua Blumenstock

Brown University (from arXiv:2004.03865, 2020) · ORCID · OpenAlex

18 papers in scope · 17 published · 1 on the econ.EM arXiv · 735 citations · h-index 8 (over the papers listed here)

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Papers

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Predicting Well-Being with Mobile Phone Data: Evidence from Four Countries
published2026 · AEA Papers and Proceedings
with Emily Aiken, Blumenstock Joshua E., Sveta Milusheva, M. Merritt Smith
Paper profile AEA Papers and Proceedings arXiv:2602.02805
Insecurity and Firm Displacement: Evidence from Afghan Corporate Phone Records
published2026 · American Economic Journal Economic Policy
with Sylvan Herskowitz, Tarek Ghani, Ethan B. Kapstein, Thomas Leo Scherer, Ott Toomet
American Economic Journal Economic Policy
What Do Policies Value?
published2025 · The Review of Economic Studies
with Daniel Björkegren, Samsun Knight
The Review of Economic Studies
Estimating impact with surveys versus digital traces: Evidence from randomized cash transfers in Togo
published2025 · Journal of Development Economics · 5 citations · first circulated 2023
with Emily Aiken, Suzanne Bellue, Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry
Journal of Development Economics
Welfare Effects of Digital Credit: A Randomized Evaluation in Nigeria
published2025 · Economic Development and Cultural Change
with Daniel Björkegren, Omowunmi Folajimi-Senjobi, Jacqueline Mauro, Suraj R Nair
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for poverty prediction and impact evaluation
published2025 · Journal of Development Economics · 3 citations
with Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas, Travis J. Lybbert, Daniel Putman
Journal of Development Economics
Yellow Pages: Information, connections and firm performance
published2025 · The Economic Journal · 1 citations
with Brian Dillon, Jenny C. Aker
The Economic Journal
Privacy guarantees for personal mobility data in humanitarian response
published2024 · Scientific Reports · 8 citations · first circulated 2023
with Nitin Kohli, Emily Aiken
Scientific Reports
Migration and the Value of Social Networks
published2023 · The Review of Economic Studies · 94 citations · first circulated 2019
with Guanghua Chi, Xu Tan
The Review of Economic Studies
Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan
published2022 · Journal of Development Economics · 40 citations
with Emily Aiken, Guadalupe Bedoya, Aidan Coville
Journal of Development Economics
Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan
published2021 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 34 citations
with Michael Callen, Tarek Ghani, Robert Gonzalez
The Review of Economics and Statistics
Public mobility data enables COVID-19 forecasting and management at local and global scales
published2021 · Scientific Reports · 134 citations · first circulated 2020
with Cornelia Ilin, Sébastien Annan-Phan, Xiao Hui Tai, Shikhar Mehra, Solomon Hsiang
Scientific Reports
A general approach to detecting migration events in digital trace data
published2020 · PLoS ONE · 39 citations
with Guanghua Chi, Fengyang Lin, Guangqing Chi
PLoS ONE
Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning
working paper2020 · arXiv · 8 citations · first circulated 2019
with Daniel Björkegren, Samsun Knight
Paper profile arXiv arXiv:2004.03865
Multi-GCN: Graph Convolutional Networks for Multi-View Networks, with Applications to Global Poverty
published2019 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 72 citations
with Muhammad Raza Khan
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
published2018 · American Economic Review · 121 citations · first circulated 2017
with Michael Callen, Tarek Ghani
American Economic Review
Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters
published2016 · Journal of Development Economics · 176 citations
with Nathan Eagle, Marcel Fafchamps
Journal of Development Economics
Research overview for doctoral colloquium
published2011 · Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference

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