Ben Olken

@Ben_Olken

Economics professor at @MITEcon interested in development economics. Faculty Director of @JPAL. Editor of AEJ:Applied Economics. Tweets are my own views.

web.mit.edu/bolken Joined July 2015

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Ben Olken @Ben_Olken Aug 19, 2024

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:
conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Ben Olken @Ben_Olken Apr 9, 2024

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".

AEA Information @AEAInformation Apr 9, 2024

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 AEJ Best Paper Awards! Check out the winning papers here: aeaweb.org/news/2024-aej-…
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Ben Olken @Ben_Olken Feb 15, 2024

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:
nber.org/calls-papers-a…

Ben Olken @Ben_Olken Dec 5, 2023

Come work with me! I'm hiring an RA to work on projects on social protection, state capacity, and climate change.

Apply here:
povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

Ben Olken @Ben_Olken Sep 15, 2023

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.

J-PAL Verified account @JPAL Sep 14, 2023

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: j-p.al/v7p

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