Ben Olken

@Ben_Olken · joined 07 Jul 2015

Economics professor at @MITEcon interested in development economics. Faculty Director of @JPAL. Editor of AEJ:Applied Economics. Tweets are my own views.

153 781Followers

136Following

143Posts total

97.2KViews on collected posts

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

21.5K14 Sep

14.7K15 Sep

28K5 Dec

3027 Dec

159

28012 Dec

11.6K15 Feb

7.8K9 Apr

12.8K19 Aug

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.11%14 Sep

0.30%15 Sep

0.87%5 Dec

0.33%7 Dec

0.63%

0.00%12 Dec

0.73%15 Feb

0.51%9 Apr

0.91%19 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes58.1%410 in total

Reposts18.7%132 in total

Replies1.6%11 in total

Quotes0.4%3 in total

Bookmarks21.2%150 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Please submit your paper for the 2024 NBER Development Economics fall program meeting, to be held December 6. The submission deadline is September 13 at midnight eastern time. Please submit here: https://t.co/rDyiq0BLLw 12.8K views · 87 likes · 27 reposts · 3 replies 19 Aug 2024 · Open on X →

Congratulations to AEJ:Applied Best Paper award winners @mdeshecon, @talgross, and @yalunsu for their paper "Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes". 7.8K views · 34 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 09 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

Please submit your paper for the 2024 NBER Development Economics Summer Institute! The deadline for all NBER Summer Institute submissions is March 21, 2024, and the call for papers is here: https://t.co/CHSGEYMfLZ 11.6K views · 65 likes · 20 reposts · 0 replies 15 Feb 2024 · Open on X →

@Ben_Olken @econ_ra Hi Dr. Olken! Is it possible to pursue this opportunity remotely from another country? 280 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 12 Dec 2023 · Open on X →

@Ben_Olken @econ_ra @Ben_Olken Thanks for sharing! Does this position have location flexibility (remotely, e.g.)? Thanks! 159 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 07 Dec 2023 · Open on X →

@Ben_Olken Do the work accept international student? Thanks prof 302 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 07 Dec 2023 · Open on X →

Come work with me! I'm hiring an RA to work on projects on social protection, state capacity, and climate change. Apply here: https://t.co/j4mcrExJGl 28K views · 173 likes · 64 reposts · 6 replies 05 Dec 2023 · Open on X →

I am very much looking forward to hosting this exciting discussion on Monday together with @rema_nadeem. Looking forward to hearing from our panel of policy makers about challenges and opportunities in designing social protection systems in practice. 14.7K views · 33 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies 15 Sep 2023 · Open on X →

Interested in social protection? Join @JPAL and @HarvardCID in a discussion with policymakers from Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Indonesia, Malawi, and Togo about their experiences implementing social protection. Register here: https://t.co/pz4oGrfJaU https://t.co/5jGKYySjl7 21.5K views · 16 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 14 Sep 2023 · Open on X →

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