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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.

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Tavneet Suri (@suritavneet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAD conference Spring 2023 will be Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MIT Sloan School of Management J-PAL Papers: submit at the link below by Tues Feb 28 Am joined on the program committee by #AbhijitBanerjee #DavidAtkin #DaveDonaldson #NamrataKala #KarenMacours Ben Olken @FrankSchilbach Guo Xu ibread.org/announcements/

BREAD conference Spring 2023 will be <a href="/MIT/">Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)</a> <a href="/MITSloan/">MIT Sloan School of Management</a> <a href="/JPAL/">J-PAL</a>

Papers: submit at the link below by Tues Feb 28

Am joined on the program committee by
#AbhijitBanerjee
#DavidAtkin
#DaveDonaldson
#NamrataKala
#KarenMacours
<a href="/Ben_Olken/">Ben Olken</a>
@FrankSchilbach
<a href="/guoxu_econ/">Guo Xu</a>

ibread.org/announcements/
Jonathan Colmer (@jonathancolmer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#EconTwitter plz rt. On July 26th (straight after NBER EEE/DEV) Clare Balboni, Namrata Kala, and I are hosting a PEDL workshop on Climate & Environment at MIT Sloan School of Management. Please share and submit your best firms and environment papers! More details here tinyurl.com/PEDL23

Ben Olken (@ben_olken) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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". aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Tavneet Suri (@suritavneet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The 2023 BREAD conference is being hosted MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Economics & J-PAL 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: ibread.org/conference/for…

The 2023 BREAD conference is being hosted <a href="/MITSloan/">MIT Sloan School of Management</a> <a href="/MITEcon/">MIT Economics</a> &amp; <a href="/JPAL/">J-PAL</a> this week, May 12 (Friday, all day) and May 13 (Saturday morning). 

It will be livestreamed!

The full conference program &amp; link to the livestream are posted here: 
ibread.org/conference/for…
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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. nyti.ms/3pRq2eO

J-PAL (@jpal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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: j-p.al/a54 #EconTwitter youtu.be/zZL2qPwEKxI

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2/2 How has #SocialProtection impacted policies, practices and ideas? Learn from our guests Rebecca Holmes (Institute of Development Studies/STAAR Facility)&  Ben Olken (MIT Economics/J-PAL) ✅Quick Wins by Mary Imbong, socialprotection.org Ambassador 🗣Host: Joanne Sharpe ▶ bit.ly/SPpodcastEp30

2/2 How has #SocialProtection impacted policies, practices and ideas? Learn from our guests <a href="/Rebecca1HG/">Rebecca Holmes</a> (<a href="/IDS_UK/">Institute of Development Studies</a>/<a href="/STAAR_Facility/">STAAR Facility</a>)&amp;  <a href="/Ben_Olken/">Ben Olken</a> (<a href="/MITEcon/">MIT Economics</a>/<a href="/JPAL/">J-PAL</a>)
✅Quick Wins by Mary Imbong, socialprotection.org Ambassador
🗣Host: <a href="/gigisharpe/">Joanne Sharpe</a>
▶ bit.ly/SPpodcastEp30
Ben Olken (@ben_olken) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am very much looking forward to hosting this exciting discussion on Monday together with Rema Hanna. Looking forward to hearing from our panel of policy makers about challenges and opportunities in designing social protection systems in practice.

Ben Olken (@ben_olken) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

VoxDev (@vox_dev) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 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: mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/course… Teaser ⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=zZL2qP…

J-PAL (@jpal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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: j-p.al/rt7

Voting systems 🗳️ &amp; the role of the media 📺 are among the topics covered in Political Economy &amp; Economic Development, taught by <a href="/Ben_Olken/">Ben Olken</a> &amp; Abhijit Banerjee. Enroll to explore the relationship between political institutions &amp; economic development: j-p.al/rt7
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🆕 National policy reversals & deforestation in the Amazon Robin Burgess LSE Department of Economics International Growth Centre, Francisco Costa Lerner College & Ben Olken MIT Economics J-PAL highlight the crucial role of policy continuity & political commitment in fighting deforestation: voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

Ben Olken (@ben_olken) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to AEJ:Applied Best Paper award winners Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross, and Yalun Su for their paper "Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes".

J-PAL (@jpal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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: bit.ly/4dhWb2Q

How does economic development impact political institutions and vice versa? Explore these and other questions in the #DEDP course Political Economy &amp; Economic Development, taught by Abhijit Banerjee &amp; <a href="/Ben_Olken/">Ben Olken</a>. Enroll here: bit.ly/4dhWb2Q
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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: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…