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Corruption in Developing Countries

Annual Review of Economics, 4, 479-505
Benjamin A. Olken, Rohini Pande
July 2012

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Data and programs Online appendices
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 4(3), 66-95
Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken
July 2012
Cover Page for The American Economic Review Journal with a maroon border

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Appendices Data and programs TV ad from the national scale-up of Indonesian social protection cards
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

American Economic Review, 104(2), 1206-1240
Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Julia Tobia
June 2012

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Appendices Data and programs
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Informal Taxation

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(4), 1-28
Benjamin A. Olken, Monica Singhal
October 2011

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Data and programs
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

American Political Science Review, 104(2), 243-267
Benjamin A. Olken
May 2010

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Data and programs
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Climate Shocks and Exports

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 100(2), 454-459
Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken
May 2010

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Data and programs Appendix
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Do TV and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4), 1-33
Benjamin A. Olken
October 2009
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

Journal of Public Economics, 93(7-8), 950-964
Benjamin A. Olken
August 2009

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Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 1(2), 55-87
Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken
July 2009
Cover page for Journal of Political Economy, on green page with white font

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Data and programs Video from "The Simple Economics of Extortion" data collection
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Journal of Political Economy, 117(3), 417-452
Patrick Barron and Benjamin A. Olken
June 2009

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Appendix
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross Sectional and Panel Estimates

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), 198-204
Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken
May 2009

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Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

A Biological Model of Unions

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(2), 150-175
Michael Kremer, Benjamin A. Olken
April 2009

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Longer version: NBER Working Paper #11528
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth

Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 582–587
Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken
August 2008

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Data and programs Additional analysis tables
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Journal of Political Economy, 115(2), 200-249
Benjamin A. Olken
April 2007
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Corruption and the Costs of Redistribution

Journal of Public Economics, 90(4-5), 853-864
Benjamin A. Olken
May 2006

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Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3), 835-864
Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken
August 2005
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Revealed Community Equivalence Scales

Journal of Public Economics, 89(2-3), 545-566
Benjamin A. Olken
February 2005