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A Biological Model of Unions 0 0 0 97 3 3 8 446
Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia 0 1 1 105 2 6 23 195
Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions: Evidence from the Elimination of "3-in-1" in Jakarta 0 0 1 24 5 5 17 55
Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions: Evidence from the Elimination of ‘3-in-1’ in Jakarta 0 0 1 25 1 3 51 131
Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century 2 4 4 630 17 35 67 1,803
Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Expansion of the Global Agricultural Frontier 8 8 8 8 5 5 5 5
Climate Shocks and Exports 0 1 3 118 8 38 82 352
Community Targeting at Scale 1 2 14 20 1 3 37 54
Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia 0 0 0 38 2 5 8 72
Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia 0 0 0 31 0 0 3 56
Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia 0 0 0 32 1 7 12 97
Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality 0 1 3 193 1 5 15 583
Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality 0 0 0 203 2 3 16 591
Corruption in Developing Countries 0 0 1 398 13 33 68 1,405
Corruption perceptions vs. corruption reality 0 0 0 39 7 8 13 235
Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia 0 2 4 90 5 9 21 179
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient 0 2 2 102 7 13 25 328
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs Worldwide 0 0 1 195 0 3 22 349
Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 0 140 4 11 34 439
Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages 1 1 2 129 4 7 20 546
Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages 0 1 1 34 1 6 111 287
Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial 0 0 1 11 8 13 27 69
Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam 0 0 1 119 4 7 16 192
Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam 1 1 2 130 5 19 43 530
Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia 0 0 0 45 2 3 11 106
Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia 1 1 3 64 4 6 16 195
Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia 1 1 1 61 3 4 17 257
Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 0 80 6 14 23 170
Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War 0 0 0 70 5 11 20 315
Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War 0 0 1 258 9 25 65 1,011
In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for RCTs in Economics 0 0 3 74 5 7 24 232
Informal Taxation 0 0 1 54 1 2 11 147
Informal Taxation 0 0 0 2 1 2 7 77
Informal Taxation 0 0 3 71 1 3 15 271
Informal Taxation 0 0 0 50 3 4 24 111
Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings 0 0 0 13 2 6 14 86
Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Transfers 0 0 0 20 2 4 16 48
Making moves matter: experimental evidence on incentivizing bureaucrats through performance-based postings 0 0 0 9 2 7 17 57
Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-recipient Members of Their Communities 0 0 1 32 3 4 18 308
Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 1 448 4 7 19 1,689
Monitoring corruption: Evidence from a field experiment in indonesia 1 1 5 58 8 10 40 302
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia 0 0 0 59 1 2 6 120
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia 0 0 0 9 3 5 15 102
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia 0 0 0 6 1 4 11 71
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia 0 0 0 48 0 1 10 199
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia 0 0 0 26 2 4 16 166
Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta 0 1 1 17 4 8 17 47
Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting: Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia 1 1 3 64 3 5 37 443
Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 0 15 3 8 18 281
Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia 0 0 0 78 1 4 19 146
Social Protection in the Developing World 2 4 13 37 4 11 83 156
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 0 1 2 81 1 6 29 363
Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia 0 2 4 124 1 9 25 332
Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia 1 2 6 102 4 10 37 255
Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors 0 0 3 99 1 7 24 310
Tax farming redux: experimental evidence on performance pay for tax collectors 0 0 1 15 0 1 9 60
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates 0 0 1 79 3 8 28 300
The (Lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 0 26 4 6 15 59
The (lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 1 13 2 2 14 80
The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth 0 0 1 153 4 4 12 615
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Large-scale Randomized Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 3 107 2 2 17 185
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Large-scale Randomized Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 0 139 1 3 29 226
The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java 0 0 3 82 5 15 51 293
The Economics of Tropical Deforestation 0 0 0 6 3 4 11 36
The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials 0 0 0 34 2 3 11 71
The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries 0 0 0 4 4 5 9 23
The Missing "Missing Middle" 0 0 1 89 3 3 17 241
The Personnel Economics of the State 1 2 7 184 10 21 58 725
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics 0 0 0 18 0 1 13 158
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics 0 2 2 39 2 25 55 288
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics 0 0 0 52 2 5 14 193
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics 0 0 0 22 2 2 12 135
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics 1 2 3 113 3 5 14 645
The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia 0 0 1 9 6 10 22 78
The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia 0 0 0 108 4 6 13 122
The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards, and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia 0 0 0 55 3 6 13 69
The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh 1 1 2 128 7 15 29 521
The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh 0 0 0 137 3 4 14 575
The challenges of universal health insurance in developing countries: Evidence from a large-scale randomized experiment in Indonesia 0 0 1 113 4 6 16 106
Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries 0 7 9 48 3 32 81 181
Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries 0 5 6 58 18 41 65 181
What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature 0 1 4 139 7 12 42 509
When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination In Indonesia 0 1 1 93 6 8 21 225
Wilderness Conservation and the Reach of the State: Evidence from National Borders in the Amazon 0 0 1 36 4 8 24 129
Willingness-To-Pay vs Administrative Hurdles: Understanding Barriers to Social Insurance Enrollment in Thailand 0 0 0 2 3 4 13 21
With or Without U? Binning Bias and the Causal Effects of Temperature Extremes 1 3 5 5 6 18 27 27
Total Working Papers 24 62 154 7,191 322 735 2,217 24,449


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Biological Model of Unions 0 0 1 26 2 3 14 220
Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer, and the Rise of Modern Development Economics 0 4 12 47 11 31 70 211
Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia 0 0 5 21 5 7 37 171
Climate Shocks and Exports 0 0 0 64 1 3 20 386
Corruption and the costs of redistribution: Micro evidence from Indonesia 1 5 14 472 5 15 41 1,236
Corruption in Developing Countries 0 2 15 404 1 12 88 1,459
Corruption perceptions vs. corruption reality 1 4 13 551 10 23 70 1,774
Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia 0 2 3 21 3 8 28 108
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs 0 4 9 62 4 16 49 258
Designing Anti-Poverty Programs in Emerging Economies in the 21st Century: Lessons from Indonesia for the World 0 0 0 63 2 3 14 188
Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 0 0 1 11 2 4 10 69
Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II 2 6 21 329 9 28 100 2,544
Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages 2 2 2 102 7 9 25 466
Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia 1 1 3 37 3 5 17 107
Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam 0 1 3 26 8 12 26 137
Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War 0 0 3 132 5 17 44 816
Informal Taxation 0 0 0 39 0 0 7 303
Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings 0 0 2 29 3 3 16 241
Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 1 7 22 549 15 45 156 2,178
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia 0 1 1 84 3 6 15 406
Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia 0 0 0 48 4 6 22 246
Promises and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans 0 0 3 34 4 7 23 281
Revealed community equivalence scales 0 0 1 29 2 3 10 131
Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 1 2 11 189 5 13 60 736
Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia 0 2 8 123 3 17 41 445
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 1 4 5 234 6 13 41 937
Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors 2 4 9 79 7 17 67 407
Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century 7 28 75 388 20 85 273 1,551
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates 1 1 2 89 2 5 18 474
The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth 0 0 2 149 0 18 62 583
The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java 1 7 23 156 2 14 75 519
The Missing "Missing Middle" 0 0 0 165 5 8 19 1,062
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics 0 0 3 153 5 10 43 709
The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh 0 0 4 381 5 6 45 1,727
Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries 0 3 4 84 3 13 29 395
What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature 1 4 18 296 5 24 104 1,059
Total Journal Articles 22 94 298 5,666 177 509 1,779 24,540


Statistics updated 2026-05-06