no code implementations • 2 May 2023 • Emily Aiken, Esther Rolf, Joshua Blumenstock
Poverty maps derived from satellite imagery are increasingly used to inform high-stakes policy decisions, such as the allocation of humanitarian aid and the distribution of government resources.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2022 • Satej Soman, Emily Aiken, Esther Rolf, Joshua Blumenstock
Machine learning-based estimates of poverty and wealth are increasingly being used to guide the targeting of humanitarian aid and the allocation of social assistance.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2022 • Emily Aiken, Guadalupe Bedoya, Joshua Blumenstock, Aidan Coville
Can mobile phone data improve program targeting?
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2022 • Daniel Björkegren, Joshua Blumenstock, Omowunmi Folajimi-Senjobi, Jacqueline Mauro, Suraj R. Nair
Digital loans have exploded in popularity across low and middle income countries, providing short term, high interest credit via mobile phones.
1 code implementation • ICML 2020 • Esther Rolf, Max Simchowitz, Sarah Dean, Lydia T. Liu, Daniel Björkegren, Moritz Hardt, Joshua Blumenstock
Our theoretical results characterize the optimal strategies in this class, bound the Pareto errors due to inaccuracies in the scores, and show an equivalence between optimal strategies and a rich class of fairness-constrained profit-maximizing policies.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2017 • Muhammad Raza Khan, Joshua Blumenstock
In this work, we analyze the problem of adoption of mobile money in Pakistan by using the call detail records of a major telecom company as our input.
no code implementations • 20 Jun 2016 • Lovenoor Aulck, Nishant Velagapudi, Joshua Blumenstock, Jevin West
Each year, roughly 30% of first-year students at US baccalaureate institutions do not return for their second year and over $9 billion is spent educating these students.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2015 • Muhammad R. Khan, Johua Manoj, Anikate Singh, Joshua Blumenstock
Churn prediction, or the task of identifying customers who are likely to discontinue use of a service, is an important and lucrative concern of firms in many different industries.