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Benjamin Olken

Global rank #795 99%

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Primary Field: Public (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://web.mit.edu/bolken

First Publication: 2005

Most Recent: 2020

RePEc ID: pol170 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Last 10 Years 3.89 1.34 2.01 0.00 20.24
All Time 10.39 14.08 2.01 0.00 71.72

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 27
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 26.59

Publications (27)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2020 The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java Review of Economic Studies S 2
2020 Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 6
2020 Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer, and the Rise of Modern Development Economics Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 1
2019 Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia Journal of Political Economy S 5
2019 Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam Economic Journal A 4
2019 Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings American Economic Review S 3
2018 Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia Journal of Political Economy S 5
2016 Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia American Economic Review S 5
2016 Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia Journal of Political Economy S 6
2016 Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 4
2016 Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2012 Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia American Economic Review S 5
2012 The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics Quarterly Journal of Economics S 5
2012 Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 3
2011 Informal Taxation American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2010 Climate Shocks and Exports American Economic Review S 2
2009 The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh Journal of Political Economy S 2
2009 Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates American Economic Review S 3
2009 Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 2
2009 A Biological Model of Unions American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2009 Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 1
2009 Corruption perceptions vs. corruption reality Journal of Public Economics A 1
2008 The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2007 Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia Journal of Political Economy S 1
2006 Corruption and the costs of redistribution: Micro evidence from Indonesia Journal of Public Economics A 1
2005 Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2005 Revealed community equivalence scales Journal of Public Economics A 1