Benjamin Olken

Working Papers

Pre-Analysis Plans in Economics
January 2015. Prepared for the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
with Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, and Sudarno Sumarto
January 2015. Appendix tables here. NBER Working Paper #20923.

Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors
with Adnan Khan and Asim Khwaja. October 2014. Online appendices here. NBER Working Paper #20627.

Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia
with Sean Lewis-Faupel, Yusuf Neggers, and Rohini Pande. July 2014. NBER Working Paper #20344.

Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
with Jie Bai, Seema Jayachandran, and Edmund J. Malesky. June 2014. NBER Working Paper #19483.

Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, and Rema Hanna. May 2014.
NBER Working Paper #18351, August 2012. Online appendix tables here.
The original 2012 version is available here.

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.