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List of works by Benjamin Olken

A Biological Model of Unions

scientific article published in April 2001

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

scientific article published in July 2014

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

scientific article published in April 2017

Citywide effects of high-occupancy vehicle restrictions: Evidence from "three-in-one" in Jakarta.

scientific article

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

scientific article published in June 2008

Climate Shocks and Exports

scientific article published in January 2010

Comparison of Knowledge and Information-Seeking Behavior After General COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Tailored for Black and Latinx Communities : A Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

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

scientific article published in January 2016

Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

scientific article published in August 2006

Corruption in Developing Countries

scientific article published in September 2011

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

scientific article published in June 2018

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

scientific article published in June 2008

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

Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam

scientific article published in September 2013

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

scientific article published in February 2013

End COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 11 March 2022

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

scientific article published in May 2007

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

scientific article published in April 2020

Informal Taxation

scientific article published in August 2009

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

scientific article published in March 2018

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

scientific article published in July 2020

Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

scientific article published in November 2005

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

scientific article published in August 2012

Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting: Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia

scientific article published in June 2013

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

scientific article published in March 2012

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

scientific article published in May 2010

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

scientific article published in August 2019

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

scientific article published in October 2014

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

scientific article published in January 2009

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

scientific article published in December 2018

The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth

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

scientific article published in September 2019

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

scientific article published in November 2017

The Missing "Missing Middle"

scientific article published in March 2014

The Personnel Economics of the State

scientific article published in December 2015

The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

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

scientific article published in February 2015

The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

scientific article published in June 2007

Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries

scientific article published in August 2018

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

scientific article published in October 2013

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

scientific article published in February 2019

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

scientific article published in July 2018