Benjamin Olken

Videos and Misc. Lectures

"My Epic Failures"
Lecture notes and reflections on my (many!) failed projects.
Prepared for 14.192, the MIT 2nd year Phd seminar on 'how to write an economics paper.'

IGC video describing "Tax Farming Redux"

TV ad from the national scale-up of Indonesian social protection cards, featuring community-based targeting as studied in "Targeting the Poor"

Video from "The Simple Economics of Extortion" data collection