Ben Olken
@Ben_Olken
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Economics professor at @MITEcon interested in development economics. Faculty Director of @JPAL. Editor of AEJ:Applied Economics. Tweets are my own views.
Joined July 2015
What specific factors should policymakers consider when designing social protection programs in low- and middle-income contexts? Explore this and more in the upcoming BREAD–IGC Virtual PhD Course, co-led by @rema_nadeem & @Ben_Olken, with lectures from several J-PAL researchers.
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This virtual PhD-level course is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the economic questions relevant to social protection.
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Please submit your paper for the 2024 NBER Development Economics fall program meeting, to be held December 6. The submission deadline is September 13 at midnight eastern time. Please submit here: https://t.co/rDyiq0BLLw
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How does economic development impact political institutions and vice versa? Explore these and other questions in the #DEDP course Political Economy & Economic Development, taught by Abhijit Banerjee & @Ben_Olken. Enroll here: https://t.co/TKJaKs7icz
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Deadline 28 June '24 📢 LSE Environment Week, 23-26 September '24 @The_IGC @CEP_LSE @STICERD_LSE @LSEnews @asvalero Submit papers👉 https://t.co/PDhR7M1P4R
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Congratulations to AEJ:Applied Best Paper award winners @mdeshecon, @talgross, and @yalunsu for their paper "Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes".
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 AEJ Best Paper Awards! Check out the winning papers here:
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🆕 National policy reversals & deforestation in the Amazon Robin Burgess @LSEEcon @The_IGC, @_FranciscoCosta @UDLernerCollege & @Ben_Olken @MITEcon @JPAL highlight the crucial role of policy continuity & political commitment in fighting deforestation:
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Evidence from the Amazon highlights the crucial role of policy continuity and political commitment to achieving sustainable conservation outcomes
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📢 New free course exploring why & how political institutions affect economic development + applying theories & empirical techniques to real-world examples. More details on this course w/ Abhijit Banerjee & @Ben_Olken: https://t.co/2co1b3dlsP Teaser ⤵️
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Voting systems 🗳️ & the role of the media 📺 are among the topics covered in Political Economy & Economic Development, taught by @Ben_Olken & Abhijit Banerjee. Enroll to explore the relationship between political institutions & economic development: https://t.co/MN3R6hO0Jv
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Please submit your paper for the 2024 NBER Development Economics Summer Institute! The deadline for all NBER Summer Institute submissions is March 21, 2024, and the call for papers is here: https://t.co/CHSGEYMfLZ
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Come work with me! I'm hiring an RA to work on projects on social protection, state capacity, and climate change. Apply here: https://t.co/j4mcrExJGl
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⭐ VoxDev Talks: NEW EPISODE Today ⭐ Can we conserve the natural environment without affecting the incomes of the global poor? @Ben_Olken @MITEcon & @seema_econ @PrincetonEcon talk to @timsvengali @vox_dev. Listen & Subscribe: https://t.co/52wZIElR2O
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I am very much looking forward to hosting this exciting discussion on Monday together with @rema_nadeem. Looking forward to hearing from our panel of policy makers about challenges and opportunities in designing social protection systems in practice.
Interested in social protection? Join @JPAL and @HarvardCID in a discussion with policymakers from Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Indonesia, Malawi, and Togo about their experiences implementing social protection. Register here: https://t.co/pz4oGrfJaU
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2/2 How has #SocialProtection impacted policies, practices and ideas? Learn from our guests @Rebecca1HG (@IDS_UK/@STAAR_Facility)& @Ben_Olken (@MITEcon/@JPAL) ✅Quick Wins by Mary Imbong, https://t.co/7jr0Hyc4rS Ambassador 🗣Host: @gigisharpe ▶ https://t.co/GOjWtytFck
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How does economic development impact political institutions, and vice versa? Explore these and other questions in the #DEDP course Political Economy & Economic Development, taught by Abhijit Banerjee & @Ben_Olken: https://t.co/Q510ImFlvx
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“Health insurance is supposed to provide financial protection against the medical costs of poor health. Yet many insured people still face the risk of enormous medical bills for their ‘covered’ care,” write Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein.
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Guaranteed basic coverage will protect those who have insurance from uncertainty.
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The 2023 BREAD conference is being hosted @MITSloan @MITEcon & @JPAL this week, May 12 (Friday, all day) and May 13 (Saturday morning). It will be livestreamed! The full conference program & link to the livestream are posted here: https://t.co/RP7JElgMnz
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Congratulations to AEJ:Applied Best Paper award winners @EnghinAtalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastian Sotelo, and Daniel Tannenbaum for their paper "The Evolution of Work in the United States". https://t.co/lJNUVxuvYV
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(April 2020) - Using the text from job ads, we introduce a new dataset to describe the evolution of work from 1950 to 2000. We show that the transformation of the US labor market away from routine...
Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 AEJ Best Paper Awards! Check out the winning papers here:
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#EconTwitter plz rt. On July 26th (straight after NBER EEE/DEV) Clare Balboni, Namrata Kala, and I are hosting a @PEDL_CEPR workshop on Climate & Environment at @MITSloan. Please share and submit your best firms and environment papers! More details here
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Special thanks to Cheryl Siegel from @MITOCW and @MITEcon PhD student Ed Davenport for all their help putting this together. And thanks to @FrankSchilbach for guest lectures on behavioral development economics!
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Esther Duflo and I are delighted to put our @MITEcon PhD. Micro Development Economics course, 14.771, online @MITOCW. All videos, syllabi, and lecture notes are free and open for all, including for use in your own classes. https://t.co/C222hV6Ffx
ocw.mit.edu
This course provides rigorous introduction to core microeconomic issues in economic development, focusing on both key theoretical contributions and empirical applications to understand both why some...
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