Dean Karlan
ExpertiseAid Effectiveness; global health; poverty and inequality; private investment EducationB.A., Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia M.P.P., University of Chicago Harris Graduate School of Public Policy M.B.A., University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Ph.D., Economics, M.I.T. BackgroundDean Karlan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University. Karlan is President of Innovations for Poverty Action and a research fellow of the M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He is co-director of the Financial Access Initiative, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His research focuses on microeconomic issues of poverty, specifically employing experimental methodologies to examine what works, what does not, and why. He focuses on microfinance program design, and has studied interest rate policy, credit evaluation and scoring policies, group versus individual liability, savings product design, credit with education, and impact from increased access to credit. His work on product design, in particular savings, typically uses insights from psychology and behavioral economics to design and test innovative approaches. He has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, FINCA International, and Freedom from Hunger. Karlan received a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T., an M.B.A. and an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. |
