Violence in Afghanistan causes people to reduce mobile money use and increase cash holdings. Just Accepted new paper by Tarek Ghani (Tarek Ghani), Joshua Blumenstock (Joshua Blumenstock), Michael Callen (no twitter), Robert Gonzalez (Robert M. Gonzalez). zcu.io/0K5z

wondering how researchers in Joshua Blumenstock's lab and at GiveDirectly💸 use cell phone metadata to help fight global poverty and inform policymaking? well, CIDER, the software package powering this work, is now publicly available on GitHub! github.com/Global-Policy-…

Come join the team at Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)! The DS4D manager will work closely with me, other CEGA faculty, as well as the awesome and collaborative staff already at CEGA.

Religious observance is hard to study because it’s hard to measure. But cell phone data can be used to measure it in Islamic countries: are people on their phones during prayer times? Brilliant new paper by Oeindrila Dube, Joshua Blumenstock, Michael Callen nber.org/papers/w30694

Room 1, led by Joshua Blumenstock and Indermit Gill, focused on using emergent data technologies to drive new approaches for rapid, targeted, parametric social protection -- especially cash payments for people affected by climate change. #SDG1 #17Rooms

We’re pleased to welcome Joshua Blumenstock UC Berkeley to deliver this year’s CGR Annual Globalisation Lecture “Applications of #MachineLearning to the Targeting of #HumanitarianAid” on 11 May. Register now! Brigitte Granville SBM QMUL Research QMUL School of Business and Management eventbrite.co.uk/e/cgr-annual-g…

Lots of AI opportunities: the Gates Foundation is providing grants of $100k for projects on LLMs from low/middle income countries gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/cata…

UC Berkeley is recruiting an assistant professor in Technology Policy, Governance, and Society. Joint search betw/ the School of Info and the Goldman School of Public Policy. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04007 Deadline is 9/25. Please help spread the word! (Reply below w/ questions)

``How do social networks influence the decision to migrate? Joshua Blumenstock, Chi, and Tan analyze a nation’s mobile phone logs, and find that dense networks matter more than extensive networks.'' restud.com/migration-and-…

I'm excited to share share job opportunities to partner with me to shape Open Phil's aid policy work. Please apply by May 12th! (1/3)

UC Berkeley is hiring 5 new faculty in “AI, Inequality, and Society", to positions spanning the I School, CS, Law, Sociology, and Statistics. Great to see us double down in this space! Please distribute (and note the early application deadline of 9/16!): aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498

To help reduce poverty and vulnerability, we need more timely information on household welfare. In this talk hosted by World Bank, Joshua Blumenstock (Joshua Blumenstock), Chancellor’s Associate Professor at the Berkeley School of Information and Goldman School of Public Policy of Public Policy, will share