
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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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/


#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


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…




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


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.

⭐ VoxDev Talks: NEW EPISODE Today ⭐ Can we conserve the natural environment without affecting the incomes of the global poor? Ben Olken MIT Economics & Seema Jayachandran Princeton Economics talk to Tim Phillips Talk Normal VoxDev. Listen & Subscribe: podfollow.com/voxdev




📢 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…


🆕 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…


Deadline 28 June '24 📢 LSE Environment Week, 23-26 September '24 International Growth Centre Centre for Economic Performance STICERD LSE Anna Valero Submit papers👉 buff.ly/3Vw6p7N buff.ly/3XwTp4x

