Standout Papers
- Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia (2017)
- Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs (2017)
- Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia (2019)
- Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting: Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia (2013)
- What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature (2014)
- Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century (2012)
- Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (2012)
- Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (2016)
- Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs Worldwide (2015)
- Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia (2018)
- Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia (2016)
- A Biological Model of Unions (2009)
- Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia (2013)
Citation Impact
Citing Papers
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2012
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John Snow's legacy: epidemiology without borders
2013 StandoutNobel
Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost?
2014 Standout
Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
2015 StandoutNature
Social and Environmental Impacts of Forest Management Certification in Indonesia
2015
Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia
2017 Standout
The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic
2020 StandoutNature
Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate
2011 Nature
Girls’ education and HIV risk: Evidence from Uganda
2013
Climate clashes? Weather variability, land pressure, and organized violence in Kenya, 1989–2004
2012
Statistical Significance,p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty
2021 StandoutNobel
Contracts and Technology Adoption
2007 StandoutNobel
Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
2001 StandoutNobel
Robust Inference With Multiway Clustering
2011 Standout
Drought and Civil War in Sub‐Saharan Africa
2013
Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
2009 StandoutNobel
Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Evidence
2016 Standout
The value of connections in turbulent times: Evidence from the United States
2016 StandoutNobel
Political model of social evolution
2011 StandoutNobel
How much income redistribution? An explanation based on vote-buying and corruption
2010
Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
2015
Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India*
2013 StandoutNobel
The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects
1983 Standout
Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper in Aqueous Electrolyte
2019 Standout
Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
2011
Nudging to use: Achieving safe water behaviors in Kenya and Bangladesh
2014
The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics
2016
The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change: Grafting Gross Underestimation of Risk onto Already Narrow Science Models
2013
Elected versus Appointed Policy Makers: Evidence from City Treasurers
2013
Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice
2019 StandoutScienceNobel
Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects
2021
Behavioral Biases and Firm Behavior: Evidence from Kenyan Retail Shops
2013 StandoutNobel
Science of science
2018 StandoutScience
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
2015 StandoutNobel
Climate, conflict, and social stability: what does the evidence say?
2013
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile
2008 StandoutNobel
How High Are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya
2008 StandoutNobel
Can the West Save Africa?
2009
Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries
2012
Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment
2009
Democracy as a middle ground: A unified theory of development and political regimes
2013
Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment*
2010
INSTITUTIONAL TRAPS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
2008
Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
2009 StandoutNobel
Getting essential health products to their end users: Subsidize, but how much?
2014 Science
Micro-Loans, Insecticide-Treated Bednets, and Malaria: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Orissa, India
2014
Mirage on the horizon: Geoengineering and carbon taxation without commitment
2023 StandoutNobel
Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change
2009
Beyond prediction: Using big data for policy problems
2017 StandoutScience
The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
2009 StandoutNobel
Is newer better? Penn World Table Revisions and their impact on growth estimates
2012 StandoutNobel
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions
2008 StandoutNobel
The preregistration revolution
2018 Standout
Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought
2015 Standout
Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments
2011
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
2016
Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes*
2008
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment*
2014
Superstar Extinction*
2010
Predicting poverty and wealth from mobile phone metadata
2015 Science
Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
2015
Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
2014
Manipulation of Social Program Eligibility
2011
Ideological Segregation Online and Offline *
2011
Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change
2013
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster
2013
Standard Operating Procedures: A Safety Net for Pre-Analysis Plans
2016
Climate not to blame for African civil wars
2010
Democracy and Foreign Education
2009
The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study
2016 StandoutNobel
Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook
2015 StandoutScience
A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries
2015 StandoutScienceNobel
From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800
2013
The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money
2016 StandoutScience
Climate shocks and political violence
2014
Hierarchically porous polymer coatings for highly efficient passive daytime radiative cooling
2018 StandoutScience
Extreme Weather and Civil War in Somalia: Does Drought Fuel Conflict through Livestock Price Shocks?
2013
Trends in Rainfall and Economic Growth in Africa: A Neglected Cause of the African Growth Tragedy
2010
Using Split Samples to Improve Inference on Causal Effects
2017
Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa
2010 Standout
Uncertainty in forecasts of long-run economic growth
2018 StandoutNobel
The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
2009 StandoutNobel
Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School
2012 StandoutNobel
Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
2016
Economic and political liberalizations
2005
Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Preanalysis Plan*
2012
Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments
2010 StandoutNobel
The marginal rate of corruption in public programs: Evidence from India
2013
Combining satellite imagery and machine learning to predict poverty
2016 StandoutScience
The Economist as Plumber
2017 StandoutNobel
School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
2013
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
2012
Temperatures and cyclones strongly associated with economic production in the Caribbean and Central America
2010
Targeting health subsidies through a nonprice mechanism: A randomized controlled trial in Kenya
2016 StandoutScienceNobel
In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments
2009
From Education to Democracy?
2005 StandoutNobel
Extreme Weather and Civil War in Somalia: Does Drought Fuel Conflict Through Livestock Price Shocks?
2013
Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics
2016 StandoutScience
Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education
2015 StandoutNobel
Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change
2013
The irreversible momentum of clean energy
2017 Science
ADAPTATION TO CYCLONE RISK: EVIDENCE FROM THE GLOBAL CROSS-SECTION
2012
Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
2014 StandoutScienceNobel
Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
2011 StandoutNobel
Works of Benjamin Olken being referenced
Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting: Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia
2013 StandoutNobel
Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia. NBER Working Paper No. 17892.
2012
Climate Shocks and Exports
2010
Corruption and the costs of redistribution: Micro evidence from Indonesia
2005
The Missing “Missing Middle”
2014
Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II
2005
Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
2009
The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh
2009
Promises and Perils of Pre-Analysis Plans
2015
Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
2007
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics*
2012
Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
2016 StandoutNobel
Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
2012 Standout
Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
2008
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
2009
What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature
2014 Standout
Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
2014
Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II*
2005
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
2012 StandoutNobel
Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
2010
Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
2008
Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors *
2015