Benjamin Olken

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Benjamin Olken is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin A. Olken is an American economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Olken is one of the directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab , a research centre specializing on the use of randomized evaluations for the purpose of studying poverty alleviation. His research focuses on the political economy of developing countries, especially regarding the role of corruption and the impact of interventions addressing corruption.

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Benjamin Olken's Published Works

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Published Works

What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature (2013) (1401)
Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century (2012) (1394)
Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War Ii (2004) (1017)
Corruption in Developing Countries (2011) (808)
Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality (2006) (711)
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (2010) (545)
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics (2011) (498)
Corruption and the costs of redistribution: Micro evidence from Indonesia (2006) (471)
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates (2009) (419)
The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth (2005) (380)
Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (2008) (357)
The Missing "Missing Middle" (2014) (283)
Climate Shocks and Exports (2010) (239)
Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors (2014) (237)
Promises and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans (2015) (211)
Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia (2014) (176)
Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia (2012) (170)
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs Worldwide (2015) (170)
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia (2012) (162)
Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (2016) (158)
The Personnel Economics of the State (2015) (139)
Informal Taxation (2009) (135)
Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries (2018) (133)
Chapter 6 – The Personnel Economics of the Developing State (2017) (131)
The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java (2017) (119)
Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia (2013) (109)
Contracting for Health: Evidence from Cambodia (2006) (104)
Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam (2013) (102)
Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia (2017) (101)
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient (2015) (94)
Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia (2018) (76)
Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats Through Performance-Based Postings (2018) (71)
Messages on Covid-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-Recipient Members of Their Communities (2020) (68)
Citywide effects of high-occupancy vehicle restrictions: Evidence from “three-in-one” in Jakarta (2017) (61)
Comparison of Knowledge and Information-Seeking Behavior After General COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Tailored for Black and Latinx Communities (2020) (59)
When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia (2019) (51)
In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for Rcts in Economics (2020) (41)
Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (2013) (37)
Revealed community equivalence scales (2005) (33)
Effects of a large-scale social media advertising campaign on holiday travel and COVID-19 infections: a cluster randomized controlled trial (2021) (33)
Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia (2019) (28)
Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia (2019) (28)
Indonesia's PNPM Generasi program : interim impact evaluation report (2010) (27)
Governance Review Paper. J-PAL Governance Initiative. (2011) (25)
End COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries. (2022) (23)
The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia (2015) (22)
A Biological Model of Unions (2001) (20)
The Brazilian Amazon’s Double Reversal of Fortune (2019) (20)
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment in Indonesia (2019) (20)
Effect of Physician-Delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19 (2021) (20)
The Impact of an Abortion Ban on Socio-Economic Outcomes of Children : Evidence from Romania ∗ (2005) (18)
Sharing the Wealth: How Villages Decide to Distribute Opk Rice (2001) (17)
WHICH REGULATIONS REDUCE CORRUPTION? EVIDENCE FROM THE INTERNAL RECORDS OF A BRIBE-PAYING FIRM (2011) (16)
Political Institutions and Local Public Goods * Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (2007) (16)
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia's National Health Insurance (2021) (16)
Wilderness Conservation and the Reach of the State: Evidence from National Borders in the Amazon (2018) (15)
Climate Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century (2008) (14)
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia (2021) (14)
Rebuilding the social compact: urban service delivery and property taxes in Pakistan (2018) (13)
The (Lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia (2018) (13)
Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia (2021) (12)
Property tax experiment in Pakistan: incentivising tax collection and improving performance (2016) (11)
Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia (2015) (9)
Designing Anti-Poverty Programs in Emerging Economies in the 21st Century: Lessons from Indonesia for the World (2019) (9)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2019) (8)
Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats Through Performance-Based Transfers (2016) (8)
Hassles versus prices (2016) (8)
Information is Power : Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia (2014) (8)
Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions: Evidence from the Elimination of ‘3-in-1’ in Jakarta (2016) (7)
Lifting the curtain on corruption in developing countries (2012) (7)
Cycles of Fire? Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia (2021) (6)
Property Tax Experiment in Punjab, Pakistan: Testing the Role of Wages, Incentives and Audit on Tax Inspectors' Behavior (2023) (5)
Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer, and the Rise of Modern Development Economics* (2020) (5)
The Role of Competition in Effective Outsourcing : Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia 1 (2017) (5)
Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Growth (2009) (4)
Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (2021) (3)
Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-government (2016) (3)
Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 infections: A cluster randomized controlled trial in 13 States. (2021) (3)
DESIGNING EFFECTIVE CELEBRITY MESSAGING: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE TWITTER EXPERIMENT PROMOTING VACCINATION IN INDONESIA (2021) (3)
The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics (2020) (2)
Indonesia - Long-term impact evaluation of Generasi (2018) (2)
DESIGNING EFFECTIVE CELEBRITY PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE TWITTER EXPERIMENT IN INDONESIA (2020) (2)
DESIGNING EFFECTIVE CELEBRITY MESSAGING: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE TWITTER EXPERIMENT ON PUBLIC HEALTH IN INDONESIA (2020) (2)
Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors (2015) (1)
Do grants to communities lead to better health and education (2013) (1)
Government Workers in Developing Countries (2015) (1)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IN PRAISE OF MODERATION: SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SCOPE AND USE OF PRE-ANALYSIS PLAN FOR RCTS IN ECONOMICS (2020) (1)
Do incentives improve tax collectors’ performance and increase tax collection in Pakistan? (2017) (1)
Combating Corruption in Community Development in Indonesia (2019) (1)
Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia (2023) (1)
Kartu Prakerja Impact Evaluation (2021) (1)
Can a Trusted Messenger Change Behavior when Information is Plentiful? Evidence from the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in West Bengal (2022) (1)
Empirical Analysis of Corruption (2010) (1)
Government employee and beneficiary preferences about redistribution (2021) (0)
Experimental evidence on incentivising bureaucrats through performance-based transfers (2016) (0)
Essays in the political economy of development (2004) (0)
Program PNPM healthy and smart generation : executive summary impact evaluation newsletter (2012) (0)
Effectively Targeting Anti-Poverty Programs in Indonesia (2021) (0)
Replication data for: Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia (2019) (0)
The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials (2022) (0)
The effect of troop withdrawal on extortion : decentralized corruption on trucking routes in Aceh (2010) (0)
Essays in political economy (2017) (0)
Replication data for: Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries (2019) (0)
The Impacts of In-kind Food Transfers versus Electronic Vouchers on Poverty Reduction in Indonesia (2021) (0)
Pakistan commissions research to evaluate linkages between urban services and tax collection About 3 ie evidence impact summaries (2021) (0)
De Jure vs De Facto Tax Enforcement: Evidence from Indonesia (2021) (0)
COVID-19 Thanksgiving Messaging at Scale (2020) (0)
Social Protection in the Developing World1 (2022) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INFORMAL TAXATION (2009) (0)
The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries (2023) (0)
Doctors’ and Nurses’ Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 infections: A cluster randomized controlled trial in 13 States (2021) (0)
The Missing “ Missing Middle ” Citation (2014) (0)
Temperature and Income: Online Appendices (2008) (0)
Do Assassins Really Change History (2015) (0)
Covid-19 Messaging to Underserved Communities - 2nd Experiment (2020) (0)
he (lack of) distortionary effects of proxy-means tests: Results from a ationwide experiment in Indonesia✩ (2020) (0)
Corruption in Developing Countries Citation (2012) (0)
Incentivizing Property Tax Inspectors through Performance-Based Postings in Pakistan (2023) (0)
CELEBRITIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGNS: A NATIONWIDE TWITTER EXPERIMENT PROMOTING VACCINATION IN INDONESIA (2020) (0)
Raskin Welfare Reform: Transition to Electronic Distributions (2019) (0)
Informal Taxation (Web Appendix) (2011) (0)
COVID-19 Health Messaging to Underserved Communities (2020) (0)
Improving the Transparency and Delivery of a Subsidized Rice Program in Indonesia (2019) (0)
Replication data for: Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century (2019) (0)
Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods in Indonesia (2022) (0)
Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia (2016) (0)
Increasing the Efficacy & Diffusion of Covid-19 Messaging for Vaccination (2021) (0)

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