Benjamin Olken

Working Papers

When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia
with Vivi Alatas, Arun Chandrasekhar, Markus Mobius, and Cindy Paladines. December 2018.

The (lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia
with Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, and Sudarno Sumarto. December 2018. NBER Working Paper #25362. Appendix here.

Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
with Nur Cahyadi, Rema Hanna, Rizal Adi Prima, Elan Satriawan, and Ekki Syamsulhakim.
NBER Working Paper #24670. November 2018. Appendix here.

The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java
with Melissa Dell. October 2018. Appendices here. NBER Working Paper #24009.
Revise and resubmit requested, Review of Economic Studies.

Wilderness Conservation and the Reach of the State: Evidence from National Borders in the Amazon
with Robin Burgess and Francisco Costa. July 2018. Appendices here. NBER Working Paper #24861.