Benjamin A. Olken

The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth

Year: 2005
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Benjamin F. Jones; Benjamin A. Olken

Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Year: 2005
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Benjamin A. Olken

Corruption Perceptions vs Corruption Reality

Year: 2006
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Benjamin A. Olken

Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages

Year: 2006
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Benjamin A. Olken

The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Benjamin A. Olken; Patrick Barron

Hit or Miss: The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

Year: 2007
Journal: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Authors: Benjamin F. Jones; Benjamin A. Olken

Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Authors: Melissa Dell; Benjamin F. Jones; Benjamin A. Olken

Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Benjamin A. Olken

Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Melissa Dell; Benjamin F. Jones; Benjamin A. Olken

Informal Taxation

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Benjamin A. Olken; Monica Singhal

Climate Shocks and Exports

Year: 2010
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Benjamin F. Jones; Benjamin A. Olken

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Year: 2010
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Vivi Alatas; Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Julia Tobias

The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

Year: 2011
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Robin Burgess; Matthew Hansen; Benjamin A. Olken; Peter Potapov; Stefanie Sieber

Corruption in Developing Countries

Year: 2011
Journal: Annual Review of Economics
Authors: Benjamin A. Olken; Rohini Pande

Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Year: 2012
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Vivi Alatas; Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken

Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

Year: 2012
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Benjamin A. Olken; Junko Onishi; Susan Wong

Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Vivi Alatas; Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Ririn Purnamasari; Matthew Waipoi

Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Vivi Alatas; Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Ririn Purnamasari; Matthew Waipoi

Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jie Bai; Seema Jayachandran; Edmund J. Malesky; Benjamin A. Olken

What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Melissa Dell; Benjamin F. Jones; Benjamin A. Olken

The Missing Missing Middle

Year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Changtai Hsieh; Benjamin A. Olken

Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia

Year: 2014
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Sean Lewis-Faupel; Yusuf Neggers; Benjamin A. Olken; Rohini Pande

Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors

Year: 2014
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Adnan Q. Khan; Asim I. Khwaja; Benjamin A. Olken

The Personnel Economics of the State

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Frederico Finan; Benjamin A. Olken; Rohini Pande

The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards, and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Jordan C. Kyle; Benjamin A. Olken; Sudarno Sumarto

Contracting Out the Last Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Jordan C. Kyle; Benjamin A. Olken; Sudarno Sumarto

Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions: Evidence from the Elimination of 3-in-1 in Jakarta

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Rema Hanna; Gabriel Kreindler; Benjamin A. Olken

The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java

Year: 2017
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Melissa Dell; Benjamin A. Olken

Universal Basic Incomes vs Targeted Transfers: Antipoverty Programs in Developing Countries

Year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken

Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

Year: 2018
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Nur Cahyadi; Remi Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Rizal Adi Prima; Elan Satriawan; Ekki Syamsulhakim

Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings

Year: 2018
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Adnan Q. Khan; Asim Ijaz Khwaja; Benjamin A. Olken

The Lack of Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia

Year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Sudarno Sumarto

Wilderness Conservation and the Reach of the State: Evidence from National Borders in the Amazon

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robin Burgess; Francisco JM Costa; Benjamin A. Olken

Tax Administration vs Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: M. Chatib Basri; Mayara Felix Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken

When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Vivi Alatas; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Markus Mobius; Benjamin A. Olken; Cindy Paladines

The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment in Indonesia

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Amy Finkelstein; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Arianna Ornaghi; Sudarno Sumarto

In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for RCTs in Economics

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Amy Finkelstein; Lawrence F. Katz; Benjamin A. Olken; Anja Sautmann

Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Marcella Alsan; Emily Breza; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Abhijit Chowdhury; Esther Duflo; Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham; Benjamin A. Olken

Food vs Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Elan Satriawan; Sudarno Sumarto

Doctors and Nurses Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Emily Breza; Fatima Cody Stanford; Marcella Alsan; Burak Alsan; Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Sarah Eichmeyer; Traci Glushko; Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham; Kelly Holland; Emily Hoppe; Mohit Karnani; Sarah Liegl; Tristan Loisel; Lucy Ogbunwobodo; Benjamin A. Olken; Carlos Torres; Pierreluc Vautrey; Erica Warner; Susan Wootton; Esther Duflo

The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Lisa Y. Ho; Emily Breza; Marcella Alsan; Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Fatima Cody Stanford; Renato Fior; Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham; Kelly Holland; Emily Hoppe; Louis-Mal Jean; Lucy Ogbunwobodo; Benjamin A. Olken; Carlos Torres; Pierre-Luc Vautrey; Erica Warner; Esther Duflo

Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Gabriel Kreindler; Arya Gaduh; Tilman Graff; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken

The Economics of Tropical Deforestation

Year: 2023
Journal: Annual Review of Economics
Authors: Clare A. Balboni; Aaron Berman; Robin Burgess; Benjamin A. Olken

The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries

Year: 2023
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Arya Gaduh; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken