Jonathan Morduch

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Jonathan Morduch (born October 3, 1963 ) is an American economist whose area of ​​expertise is development economics and specifically microfinance . Since 2006, Morduch has been Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University . In addition, as Managing Director, he heads the Financial Access Initiative , a US research consortium that deals with the question of how the financial sector could better support poor households with regard to their financial needs.

education

In May 1985 Morduch received an AB (Honors) in Economics from Brown University, where he also won the Lamport Prize for International Understanding in Economics. During his third year of study he spent a year studying at the London School of Economics . Following his bachelor's degree, Morduch worked from 1985 to 1986 as a research assistant in the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development at the World Bank . Morduch then moved to Harvard University , which gave him a Ph.D. for his dissertation " Risk and Welfare in Developing Countries" . During this time, Morduch also conducted research in the fields of public finance and labor markets.

Professional background

After receiving his Ph.D., Morduch became an assistant professor in the Faculty of Economics at Harvard University, a position he held until 1995. However, he spent the academic year 1994–1995 as visiting professor at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School . From 1991 to 1995, parallel to his work at Harvard University, he also carried out research assignments at the Institute for Policy Reform (1993) and in the context of the Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector research group at the University of Maryland . In July 1995 he was promoted to associate professor from Harvard University before moving to New York University (NYU) as associate professor in 1998 . Before that, Morduch worked at the Food Research Institute at Stanford University (1995, 1996), the Harvard Institute for International Development (1996–1998) and as a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution (1997–1998).

After moving to NYU, Morduch worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Center for International Studies at Princeton University (1998-2000), as a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (2000) and at the University of Tokyo (2002-2003). In September 2006, Morduch was promoted to professor by NYU. In 2008 he also took on a leading position as Managing Director within the Financial Access Initiative, founded in 2006, a research committee that deals with problems in the field of microfinance.

In 2005 Morduch published the book The Economics of Microfinance together with Beatriz Armendáriz , which became a standard work of entry-level literature in the field of microfinance, for example at Cambridge University .

research

Jonathan Morduch's research has been very much concerned with microfinance since the late 1990s, in particular with the role of banking in development economics and the role of banks as microfinance institutions . In addition, Morduch has also researched other topics, e.g. the economic consequences of gender discrimination, the importance of income distribution for consumption and economic growth and the consequences of price liberalization.

According to the economic database IDEAS , Morduch ranks among the 5% of the most productive economists under the criteria "research output" and "citations". His most-cited research article is " Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing " (1995). The Université libre de Bruxelles awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2008.

literature

Books

  • Collins, Daryl, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven (2009): Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day , Princeton University Press.
  • Armendáriz, Beatriz, Jonathan Morduch (2010): The Economics of Microfinance , 2nd edition, MIT Press.

Research article (selection)

  • Cull, Robert, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Jonathan Morduch (2011): Does Regulatory Supervision Curtail Microfinance Profiability and Outreach? , World Development, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 949-965.
  • Bauer, Michael, Julie Chytilova, Jonathan Morduch (2012): Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental Survey Evidence from Rural India , American Economic Review, Vol. 102, No. 2, pp. 1118–1139.
  • Cull, Robert, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Jonathan Morduch (2009): Microfinance Meets the Market , Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 167–192.
  • Cull, Robert, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Jonathan Morduch (2007): Financial performance and outreach: a global analysis of leading microbanks, Economic Journal, Vol. 117, No. 517, pp. F107-133.
  • Gine, Xavier, Pamela Jakiela, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch (2010): Microfinance Games , American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 60–95.
  • Gamanou, Gisele, Jonathan Morduch (2012): Do interest rates matter? Credit demand in the Dhaka slums , Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 97, No. 2, pp. 437-449.
  • Morduch, Jonathan, Terry Sicular (2002): Rethinking Inequality Decomposition, With Evidence from Rural China , Economic Journal, Vol. 112, No. 476, pp. 93-106.
  • Morduch, Jonathan, Terry Sicular (2000): Politics, growth, and inequality in rural China: does it pay to join the Party? , Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 331-356.
  • Morduch, Jonathan (2000): The Microfinance Schism , World Development, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 617-629.
  • Morduch, Jonathan (1994): Poverty and Vulnerability , American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 221-225.
  • Morduch, Jonathan (1995): Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing , Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 103-114.
  • Morduch, Jonathan J., Hal S. Stern (1995): Using mixture models to detect sex bias in health outcomes in Bangladesh , Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 259-276.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the Financial Access Initiative (FAI) (English)
  2. ↑ Compulsory literature for the "Credit and Microfinance" course by Dr. Kumar Aniket, University of Cambridge (English) (PDF file; 34 kB)
  3. ^ IDEAS database, Research Papers in Economics, author profile of Jonathan Morduch
  4. ↑ Les Docteurs Honoris Causa de l'Université libre de Bruxelles

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personal data
SURNAME Morduch, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1963