Benjamin A. Olken (born April 1975)[1] is an American economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
During his studies, Olken worked as a business analyst for McKinsey & Company in New York City as well as in the World Bank's Jakarta office.
[4] In another Indonesian field experiment, Olken and Patrick Barron document the influence of market structure on bribe payments, i.e. whether the drivers of overweight trucks have affordable alternatives to driving on roads with frequent checkpoints, and the use of sophisticated pricing schemes by corrupt officials (e.g. two-part tariffs).
"[8] Furthermore, in prior work, Dell, Jones and Olken also found that a large part of the strongly negative impact of high temperatures on income may be offset by adaptation in the long run.
[9] These and other results are summarized and discussed in these authors' highly cited review of the economics of climate change, What Do We Learn from the Weather?.