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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dean Karlan is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including economics, sociology, political science, accounting, safety research, and finance. Karlan's work frequently appears in academic venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, Harvard Dataverse, Journal of Development Economics, and Nature.

Their research topics cover diverse areas, with a focus on microfinance and financial inclusion, poverty, education, and child welfare, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, fintech, crowdfunding and digital finance, misinformation and its impacts, Islamic finance and banking studies, as well as banking stability, regulation, and efficiency.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Karlan include:

  • COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries (2021, Science Advances)
  • Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science (2021, Nature)
  • Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid (2022, Nature)
  • Randomizing Religion: the Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes (2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics)

Karlan has collaborated extensively with several researchers, frequently coauthoring with Christopher Udry, Gharad Bryan, Jonathan Zinman, Lasse Brune, and Susan Athey.

In addition to journal articles, Karlan has contributed to book publications with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. Titles include:

  • Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-Faceted Social Protection Program in Niger (2021)
  • Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World: Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment (2020)
  • Give me a Pass: Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia (2022)

Karlan has received recognition from notable foundations, including being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2016 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Promoting an open research culture

    B. A. Nosek;G. Alter;G. C. Banks;D. Borsboom

  • Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

    Nava Ashraf;Dean S. Karlan;Wesley Yin

  • Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

    Dean S. Karlan;Martin Valdivia

  • Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

    Dean Karlan;Robert Darko Osei;Isaac Osei-Akoto;Christopher Udry

  • Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

    Dean S. Karlan;Margaret McConnell;Sendhil Mullainathan;Jonathan Zinman

  • Using experimental economics to measure social capital and predict financial decisions

    Dean S. Karlan

  • Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts

    Dean S. Karlan;Jonathan Zinman

  • Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps †

    Abhijit Banerjee;Dean S. Karlan;Jonathan Zinman

  • A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries

    Abhijit Banerjee;Esther Duflo;Nathanael Goldberg;Dean Karlan

  • COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries.

    Julio S. Solís Arce;Shana S. Warren;Niccolò F. Meriggi;Alexandra Scacco

  • Does the media matter? A field experiment measuring the effect of newspapers on voting behavior and political opinions

    Alan Gerber;Dean Karlan;Daniel Bergan

  • Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions

    Alan S. Gerber;Dean Karlan;Daniel Bergan

  • What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

    Marianne Bertrand;Dean S. Karlan;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir

  • Does price matter in charitable giving? Evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment

    Dean Karlan;John A List

  • OBSERVING UNOBSERVABLES: IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES WITH A CONSUMER CREDIT FIELD EXPERIMENT

    Dean S. Karlan;Jonathan Zinman

  • Female empowerment: impact of a commitment savings product in the Philippines

    Nava Ashraf;Dean S. Karlan;Wesley Yin

  • Put your money where your butt is : a commitment contract for smoking cessation

    Xavier Gine;Dean Karlan;Jonathan Zinman

  • Savings by and for the poor: A research review and agenda

    Dean S. Karlan;Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan;Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan;Jonathan Zinman

  • Trust and Social Collateral

    Dean Karlan;Markus Mobius;Tanya Rosenblat;Adam Szeidl

  • Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation

    Xavier Gine;Dean Karlan;Jonathan Zinman

  • Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

    Manuela Angelucci;Dean Karlan;Jonathan Zinman

  • Social Connections and Group Banking

    Dean S. Karlan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Zinman
Jonathan Zinman Dartmouth College
Christopher Udry
Christopher Udry Northwestern University
Xavier Giné
Xavier Giné World Bank
Alberto Chong
Alberto Chong Georgia State University
John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Marianne Bertrand
Marianne Bertrand University of Chicago
James J. Choi
James J. Choi Yale University
Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir Princeton University

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