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Economics and Finance D-index 70 Citations 27,909 273 World Ranking 285 National Ranking 213

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Awards & Achievements

2016 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Finance
  • Statistics
  • Capitalism

Dean Karlan focuses on Microfinance, Interest rate, Marketing, Treatment and control groups and Public economics. His Microfinance study combines topics in areas such as Social capital, Access to finance and Labour economics. His Interest rate research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Liability, Bond market, Maturity, Actuarial science and Poverty.

The concepts of his Marketing study are interwoven with issues in Loan, Savings account, Cash crop, Time preference and Commit. His Treatment and control groups research includes themes of Impact evaluation, Market failure and Demographic economics. Dean Karlan has researched Public economics in several fields, including Human development, Baseline, Product and Empowerment.

His most cited work include:

  • Promoting an open research culture (1079 citations)
  • Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (899 citations)
  • Using experimental economics to measure social capital and predict financial decisions (567 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Dean Karlan mainly investigates Microfinance, Loan, Poverty, Actuarial science and Marketing. His Microfinance research integrates issues from Access to finance, Finance, Labour economics, Developing country and Social capital. His study looks at the intersection of Loan and topics like Interest rate with Private information retrieval and Bond market.

In his study, Mental health is strongly linked to Demography, which falls under the umbrella field of Poverty. The various areas that Dean Karlan examines in his Actuarial science study include Information asymmetry and Moral hazard. His Marketing study incorporates themes from Behavioral economics and Treatment and control groups.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Microfinance (21.96%)
  • Loan (17.31%)
  • Poverty (18.60%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Poverty (18.60%)
  • Loan (17.31%)
  • Psychological intervention (9.56%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His main research concerns Poverty, Loan, Psychological intervention, Public economics and Developing country. His Poverty study is focused on Economic growth in general. His work deals with themes such as Control, Marketing, Consumer behaviour and Actuarial science, which intersect with Loan.

His studies in Marketing integrate themes in fields like Microfinance, Payment, Rest and Access to finance. Dean Karlan studied Microfinance and Corporate social responsibility that intersect with Social business. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Treatment and control groups and Recession.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Banking the unbanked? Evidence from three countries (46 citations)
  • Price and control elasticities of demand for savings (27 citations)
  • The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana (25 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Finance
  • Statistics
  • Capitalism

His primary scientific interests are in Poverty, Psychological intervention, Control, Randomized controlled trial and Demography. He has included themes like Global health, Scale and Distribution in his Poverty study. His Psychological intervention research incorporates elements of Intervention, Economic growth and Medical emergency.

His Control research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Loan, Finance and Financial literacy. As part of his studies on Loan, Dean Karlan often connects relevant subjects like Debt. Dean Karlan combines subjects such as Life satisfaction, Consumption, Socioeconomic status and Religiosity with his study of Demography.

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Best Publications

Promoting an open research culture

B. A. Nosek;G. Alter;G. C. Banks;D. Borsboom.
Science (2015)

1970 Citations

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

Nava Ashraf;Dean S. Karlan;Wesley Yin.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006)

1815 Citations

Using experimental economics to measure social capital and predict financial decisions

Dean S. Karlan.
Research Papers in Economics (2005)

1213 Citations

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

Dean S. Karlan;Martin Valdivia.
The Review of Economics and Statistics (2011)

1202 Citations

Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Dean Karlan;Robert Darko Osei;Isaac Osei-Akoto;Christopher Udry.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2014)

1156 Citations

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

Dean S. Karlan;Jonathan Zinman.
Review of Financial Studies (2010)

1044 Citations

Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps †

Abhijit Banerjee;Dean S. Karlan;Jonathan Zinman.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2015)

984 Citations

Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Dean S. Karlan;Margaret McConnell;Sendhil Mullainathan;Jonathan Zinman.
Management Science (2016)

976 Citations

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

Abhijit Banerjee;Esther Duflo;Nathanael Goldberg;Dean Karlan.
Science (2015)

930 Citations

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

Alan Gerber;Dean Karlan;Daniel Bergan.
Research Papers in Economics (2009)

842 Citations

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