Dean Karlan

Dean Karlan is an American economist, Professor of Economics at Yale University and whose research focuses development economics, behavioral economics, political economy and economic science field trials are in the fields. He is a co-founder of the company and stickK iCademy, organizations Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA ) and the Financial Access Initiative.

Training

Dean Karlan attended the University of Virginia, in which he studied Foreign Affairs with Latin America as a priority and of which he in 1990 with a BA obtained. During part of his undergraduate Karlan worked for a textile company, which produced tie-dye products for Retailer in South Florida. Products were sold in South Florida. Then Karlan studied at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, which in 1997 both his respective an MPP and a M.B.A. awarded, the latter with distinction. Following his Master studies founded Karlan iCademy, Inc., a dissolved company in 2001 for educational programs on the internet. Thereafter, Karlan moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied Development Economics and Public Finance. In 2002 he was recognized for his dissertation entitled " Social Capital and Microfinance " (Social Capital and Microfinance ) from MIT, a Ph.D. awarded.

Professional career

After receiving his Ph.D. Karlan left MIT and took a job as Assistant Professor of Economics and International Relations at Princeton University, where he remained until 2005. At the same time Karlan was from 2002 to 2005 and 2006 respectively consultant for the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. After he had worked in 2004 as a visiting professor of economics and management at Yale University, Karlan in 2005 after yet another change at the Yale University Assistant Professor of Economics, before he was promoted in 2008 to full professor of macroeconomics. In 2006, Karlan Jonathan Morduch and Sendhil together with Mullainathan the Financial Access Initiative ( FAI), a research center which he explored how financial services could better meet the needs of poor households and improve the lives of poor people and co-director whose until 2010. A year later, Karlan founded with Ian Ayres and Jordan Goldberg Stickk, a company that offers users the ability to self-commitment contracts to complete.

In addition, Karlan is since 2003 a Research Affiliate at GRADE - Peru and Abdul Latif Jameel Research Fellow at the Poverty Action Lab ( J- PAL) at MIT, where he was a board member in 2010 and Co - Director for the financial program. In 2006 he was further 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 economics publication database IDEAS Dean Karlan part in the overall ranking of the 3 % of the strongest research economists (Rank 743 ). Even under criteria such as " number of publications " or " number of citations " Karlan heard clearly in the top 5 % of the economists included in the database. The most zitierteste Karlans article is entitled " 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 investigate the effect of a commitment savings accounts in the Philippines, which they used the methodology of a randomized controlled trial. The experiment showed that those participants 82 % were from the group with interest and free savings accounts at the end of the test period, higher savings than participants from the control group committed itself, indicating a high efficiency of commitment savings accounts.

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

Awards

Distinguished Alumnus Award of 2006 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 " awarded Kaplan. He also won the USAID Private Sector Development Impact Assessment Competition for his article " Expanding Credit Access". Kaplan 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers ( PECASE ), 2008 received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and in 2011 the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Finally, it was 2012 Public Service Distinguished Alumni Award from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago for his activities serving the public.