The Power of Data and Evidence in Delivering Effective Social Assistance with Roberta V. Gatti, Benjamin Olken, and Emily Romano, Let’s Talk Development (a World Bank Blog), December 2020.
Is Improving Tax Administration More Effective than Raising Tax Rates? Evidence from Indonesia VoxDev, with Chatib Basri, Mayara Felix, and Benjamin Olken, December 2020.
Perluasan Perlindungan Sosial untuk Kelas Menengah Bawah (Expansion of Social Protection for the Lower Middle Class) Kompas, April 2020. (Part of a three-piece series with Chatib Basri and Benjamin A. Olken).
Don’t Forget the Middle Class in Social Protection Programs with Chatib Basri and Benjamin A. Olken, The Jakarta Post, April 2020.
Cushioning the Poor from the COVID-19 Shock with Benjamin Olken, Project Syndicate, April 2020.
Spend Fossil-Fuel Subsidies on Pandemic Relief and the Poor with Chatib Basri and Benjamin Olken, Project Syndicate, May 2020.
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Indonesia with Abhijit Banerjee, Amy Finkelstein, Benjamin Olken, Arianna Ornaghi, and Sudarno Sumarto, VoxDev, November 2019.
The Myth of Welfare Dependency Project Syndicate, August 2019.
Targeting the Poor: Social Protection in Developing Countries with Adnan Khan and Ben Olken, IMF Finance and Development Magazine, December 2018.
Research offers new possibilities for cutting corruption in the public sector with Vestal McIntyre, VoxDev, December 2018.
Do dishonest people gravitate towards the public sector in India? with Shing-Yi Wang, Ideas for India, July 2018.
Which Traffic Policies Work Best for Megacities? Project Syndicate, January 2018.
Jakarta’s Maligned Congestion-easing Policy Actually Worked with Vestal McIntyre, VOX Development, October 2017.
Implementation ups and downs: Monitoring attendance to improve public services for the poor in India with Vestal McIntyre, VOX Development, July 2017.
The devil is in the details: The successes and limitations of bureaucratic reform with Iqbal Dhaliwal and Rebecca Toole, Ideas for India, December 2016.
Improved cooking stoves in India: Evaluating long-run impacts with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, and Claire Walsh, Ideas for India, July 2016.
Forschungslücke with Alexandra Spitz-Oener and Rajshri Jayaraman, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, July 2016.
Building the Evidence Base for Developing Countries: An Example from the Effect of Pollution on Infant Health in Mexico with Eva Arceo and Paulina Oliva, VOX, April 2016.
Strengthening Safety Nets for the Poor with Ben Olken, Jakarta Post, January 2016.
Cash Transfers to Indonesia's Poor Don't Discourage Work with Ben Olken, Jakarta Globe, October 2015.
Has Environmental Regulation Been Successful in India? with Michael Greenstone, Ideas for India, July 2012.
Clean Cookstoves Must be Rethought so They Actually Get Used in the Developing World with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, and Radha Muthiah, National Geographic News Watch, June 2012.
(Book Review) Impact Evaluation in Practice Journal of Economic Literature, pages 724-725, September 2011.
Do Teachers Discriminate Against Minorities in India? with Leigh Linden, VOX, September 2009.
(Book Review) When Things Fall Apart Journal of Economic Literature, pages 531-532, June 2009.
Can Improved Stoves Improve Health? Indian Express, May 12, 2009
Reservations: Gains at a Cost with Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Sudha Krishnan. Mint (Wall Street Journal, India), April 14, 2008.