Dean Karlan

Dean Karlan
Karlan in 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.