Dean Karlan

Dean Karlan at the World Economic Forum 2011.

Dean Karlan is an American economist who is Professor of Economics at Yale University and whose research interests lie in the areas of development economics , behavioral economics , political economy and economic field tests . He is one of the co-founders of the companies stickK and iCademy as well as the organizations Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and Financial Access Initiative .

education

Dean Karlan attended the University of Virginia , where he studied Foreign Affairs with a focus on Latin America and from which he received a BA in 1990 . During part of his undergraduate studies, Karlan worked for a textile company that made knotted batik products for small traders in South Florida. Products were sold in South Florida. Karlan then studied at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago , both of which awarded him an MPP and an MBA in 1997 , the latter with distinction. After completing his master's degree, Karlan founded iCademy, Inc., an Internet educational program company that was dissolved in 2001. After that, Karlan moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied development economics and public finance. He was for his thesis entitled "Social Capital and Microfinance" (2002 Social Capital and Microfinance one) from MIT Ph.D. awarded.

Professional background

After receiving his Ph.D. Karlan left MIT and took a position as Assistant Professor of Economics and International Relations at Princeton University , where he stayed until 2005. At the same time Karlan was a consultant for the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank from 2002 to 2005 and 2006 respectively . After working as a visiting professor for economics and management at Yale University in 2004, Karlan became an assistant professor for economics in 2005 after moving to Yale University before he was promoted to full professor for economics in 2008. In 2006 Karlan founded the Financial Access Initiative (FAI) together with Jonathan Morduch and Sendhil Mullainathan , a research center that researches how financial services can better meet the needs of poor households and improve the lives of poor people and of which he was co-director until 2010. A year later, Karlan founded Stickk with Ian Ayres and Jordan Goldberg , a company that gives users the opportunity to enter into self-commitment contracts.

In addition, Karlan has been a Research Affiliate at GRADE-Peru since 2003 and a Research Fellow at MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), where he became a board member and co-director for financial programs in 2010. In 2006 he also became a Research Affiliate of the Development Economics Group of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development .

research

According to the economic publications database IDEAS , Dean Karlan is one of the 3% of the most research-intensive economists in the overall ranking (743th place). Also under criteria such as "number of publications" or "number of citations" Karlan clearly belongs to the top 5% of the economists recorded in the database. Karlan's most cited article is titled " Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines " (2006) and was co- authored with Nava Ashraf and Wesley Yin . In this article, Ashraf, Karlan, and Yin examine the effect of a mandatory savings account in the Philippines using a randomized controlled trial methodology . The experiment showed that those participants from the group with interest-free and free savings accounts had 82% higher savings than participants from the self-committed control group at the end of the test period, which indicates a high degree of effectiveness of mandatory savings accounts.

Kaplan also works as an editor for the economic journals American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , Journal of Globalization and Development , Quantitative Economics , Journal of Economic Literature and Journal of Development Economics .

Awards

In 2006 Kaplan received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Duke University Talent Identification Program and the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Certificate for Excellent for his article "Tying Odysseus to the Mast". He also won the USAID Private Sector Development Impact Assessment competition for his article "Expanding Credit Access". In 2007 Kaplan received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), in 2008 a Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and in 2011 the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Finally, in 2012, he received the Public Service Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business for his public service work.

literature

Books

• Appel, Jacob, Dean Karlan (2011): More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty , Penguin Dutton Press.

items

• Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin (2006): Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines , The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 121, No. 2, pp. 673-697.
• Karlan, Dean, Jonathan Zinman (2010): Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts , Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 433-464.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.financialaccess.org/about
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Overall ranking of the economic publications database IDEAS (English)
4. ↑ Author profile of Dean Karlan on IDEAS (English)
5. ↑ Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin (2006): "Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines" (PDF file; 208 kB)

source

• Dean Karlan's curriculum vitae on the Yale University website (PDF file; 60 kB)