Benjamin Olken

Working Papers

Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs Worldwide
with Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, and Gabriel Kreindler. September 2016. Online appendices here.

Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
with Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, and Sudarno Sumarto. August 2015.
Online appendix tables here. Earlier version: NBER Working Paper #21837, December 2015.

Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Transfers
with Adnan Khan and Asim Khwaja. July 2016. Appendix here.

Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam
with Jie Bai, Seema Jayachandran, and Edmund J. Malesky. April 2016. NBER Working Paper #19483.

Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia
with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Ririn Purnamasari, and Matthew Wai-Poi.
January 2013. Appendix tables here. NBER Working Paper #18798.