Dean Karlan
Professor of Economics at Yale University and President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action
Dean Karlan is Professor of Economics at Yale University and President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and is a research fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.
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Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty
Dean Karlan
In this new book, co-authored with Jacob Appel, Dean Karlan merges behavioral economics with worldwide field research, taking readers into villages across Africa, India, South America, and the Philippines where economic theory collides with real life. Read More ››