Dean Karlan

Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 2011
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionNorthwestern University (2017–present)

Yale University (2005–17)

Princeton University (2002–05)
Doctoral
advisor
Abhijit Banerjee[1]
Esther Duflo[1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Dean Karlan is an American development economist. He is Chief Economist of USAID and Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University[2] where, alongside Christopher Udry, he co-founded and co-directs the Global Poverty Research Lab at Kellogg School of Management.[3] Karlan is the president and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a New Haven, Connecticut, based research outfit dedicated to creating and evaluating solutions to social and international development problems.[4] He is also a Research Fellow and member of the Executive Committee of the board of directors at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5] Along with economists Jonathan Morduch and Sendhil Mullainathan, Karlan served as director of the Financial Access Initiative (FAI), a consortium of researchers focused on substantially expanding access to quality financial services for low-income individuals.

On 15 of November 2022 he was nominated USAID Chief Economist [1]

Together with Abhijit Banerjee,[6] Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer,[7] John A. List,[8] and Sendhil Mullainathan,[9] he has been a driving force in advancing field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics. He is also a co-founder of stickK.com and co-founder of ImpactMatters, which, counter to other evaluators which focus on overhead costs, instead prioritized cost-effectiveness analysis.[10]

  1. ^ a b Karlan, Dean S. (2002), Social capital and microfinance. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  2. ^ Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/karlan_dean.aspx
  3. ^ "Global Poverty Research Lab | Kellogg School | Northwestern". www.kellogg.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  4. ^ Shelton, Jim (22 January 2010). "The devil's in the data: Innovations for Poverty Action of New Haven evaluates programs around the globe". New Haven Register.
  5. ^ "Dean Karlan". Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
  6. ^ "Abhijit Banerjee — Short Bio". Archived from the original on 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  7. ^ "Michael Kremer".
  8. ^ "John List – Home Page".
  9. ^ "Sendhil Mullainathan".
  10. ^ Sullivan, Paul (22 November 2019). "New Rating System for Charities Aims to Measure Impact of Gifts". The New York Times.