Dean Karlan

Latest Institution: None

All Institutions: Yale University; University of Toronto; Institute for Financial Management and Research; Northwestern University; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Kellogg Global Hub; NA; Innovations for Poverty Action; University of California, Santa Cruz; Harvard University; Princeton University; Dartmouth College; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Kellogg Global Hub, Northwestern University; Cornell University; Northeastern University; Fundación Mario Santo Domingo; CEPR


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Based on the Following Papers:

What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Marianne Bertrand; Dean Karlan; Sendhil Mullainathan; Eldar Shafir; Jonathan Zinman

Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2006
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Dean Karlan; John A. List

Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Year: 2010
Journal: Management Science
Authors: Dean Karlan; Margaret McConnell; Sendhil Mullainathan; Jonathan Zinman

List Randomization for Sensitive Behavior: An Application for Measuring Use of Loan Proceeds

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Chong; Ana L. de la O; Dean Karlan; Leonard Wantchekon

Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Margaret A. McConnell

How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Dean Karlan; John A. List

Behind the Gate Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Year: 2012
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Robert W. Fairlie; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

Referrals, Peer Screening, and Enforcement in a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Year: 2012
Journal: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Authors: Gharad T. Bryan; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

A Personal Touch: Text Messaging for Loan Repayment

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Melanie Morten; Jonathan Zinman

Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Ryan Knight; Christopher Udry

Agricultural Decisions After Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Year: 2012
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Dean Karlan; Robert Darko Osei; Isaac Oseiakoto; Christopher Udry

Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers' Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia

Year: 2013
Journal: World Bank Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Chong; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro; Dean Karlan; Martin Valdivia

Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Year: 2013
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Lori A. Beaman; Dean Karlan; Bram Thuysbaert; Christopher R. Udry

Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism

Year: 2013
Journal: Economic Development and Cultural Change
Authors: Santosh Anagol; Alvin Etang; Dean Karlan

Targeting Ultrapoor Households in Honduras and Peru

Year: 2013
Journal: World Bank Economic Review
Authors: Dean Karlan; Bram Thuysbaert

Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico

Year: 2013
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Julian C. Jamison; Dean Karlan; Pia Raffler

Win Some Lose Some: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Manuela Angelucci; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

Follow the Money: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a Liquidity Shock

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Dean Karlan; Adam Osman; Jonathan Zinman

Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Year: 2014
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Lori Beaman; Dean Karlan; Bram Thuysbaert; Christopher Udry

Saving for a Not So Rainy Day: A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Lori Beaman; Dean Karlan; Bram Thuysbaert

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

Year: 2014
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Manuela Angelucci; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Leigh L. Linden

The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment

Year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Authors: Dean Karlan; Daniel H. Wood

Financial Education and Access to Savings Accounts: Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from Ugandan Youth Clubs

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Julian C. Jamison; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Greg Fischer; Dean Karlan; Margaret McConnell; Pia Raffler

The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth

Year: 2015
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Greg Fischer; Dean Karlan

Unshrouding Effects on Demand for a Costly Addon: Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Sule Alan; Mehmet Cemalclar; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

Year: 2015
Journal: World Development
Authors: James Berry; Dean Karlan; Menno Pradhan

Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Three Countries

Year: 2016
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Pascaline Dupas; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Robinson; Diego Ubfal

Research and Impacts of Digital Financial Services

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Jake Kendall; Rebecca Mann; Rohini Pande; Tavneet Suri; Jonathan Zinman

Debt Traps: Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

Year: 2018
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Dean Karlan; Sendhil Mullainathan; Benjamin N. Roth

Intuitive Donating: Testing Online Solicitations for $1 Donations in a Large Online Experiment

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Samantha Horn; Dean Karlan

Unpacking a Multifaceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor

Year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Dean Karlan; Robert Darko Osei; Hannah Trachtman; Christopher Udry

Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes

Year: 2018
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Gharad T. Bryan; James J. Choi; Dean Karlan

Dangers of a Double Bottom Line: A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Adam Osman; Jonathan Zinman

Unpacking a Multifaceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Abhijit Banerjee; Robert Osei; Hannah Trachtman; Christopher Udry

Debt Traps: Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Sendhil Mullainathan; Benjamin Roth

Intuitive Donating: Testing Online Solicitations for $1 Donations in a Large Online Experiment

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Samantha Horn; Dean Karlan

Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; James Choi; Gharad Bryan

Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line: A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Adam Osman; Jonathan Zinman

Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan's Effects on Consumer Behavior, Credit Scores, and Their Predictive Power

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeremy Burke; Julian Jamison; Dean Karlan; Kata Mihaly; Jonathan Zinman

Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan's Effects on Consumer Behavior, Credit Scores, and Their Predictive Power

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeremy Burke; Julian C. Jamison; Dean Karlan; Kata Mihaly; Jonathan Zinman

Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multifaceted Program for Ultrapoor Households in Yemen

Year: 2020
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Lasse Brune; Dean Karlan; Sikandra Kurdi; Christopher R. Udry

Consumer Protection for Financial Inclusion in Low and Middle Income Countries: Bridging Regulator and Academic Perspectives

Year: 2020
Journal: Annual Review of Financial Economics
Authors: Seth Garz; Xavier Gin; Dean Karlan; Rafe Mazer; Caitlin Sanford; Jonathan Zinman

Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Gharad Bryan; Matthew Grant; Kareem Haggag; Dean Karlan; Meredith Startz; Christopher Udry

How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; John List

Consumer Protection for Financial Inclusion in Low and Middle Income Countries: Bridging Regulator and Academic Perspectives

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Seth Garz; Xavier Gin; Dean Karlan; Rafe Mazer; Caitlin Sanford; Jonathan Zinman

Five-Year Impacts of Group-Based Financial Education and Savings Promotion for Ugandan Youth

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Samantha Horn; Julian Jamison; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana

Year: 2020
Journal: World Development
Authors: Kate Baldwin; Dean Karlan; Christopher R. Udry; Ernest Appiah

Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Dean Karlan; Hannah Trachtman; Christopher R. Udry

How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Katharine Baldwin; Dean Karlan; Christopher Udry; Ernest Appiah

Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115579 Bags

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Dean Karlan; Hannah Trachtman; Christopher Udry

Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multifaceted Program for Ultrapoor Households in Yemen

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Lasse Brune; Dean Karlan; Sikandra Kurdi; Christopher Udry

Does Lasting Behavior Change Require Knowledge Change? Evidence from Savings Interventions for Young Adults

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Samantha Horn; Julian C. Jamison; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Emily Aiken; Suzanne Bellue; Dean Karlan; Christopher R. Udry; Joshua Blumenstock

Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Gharad T. Bryan; Dean Karlan; Adam Osman

Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Nathan Barker; Gharad T. Bryan; Dean Karlan; Angela Oforiatta; Christopher R. Udry

Cooperation in the Commons: Community-Based Rangeland Management in Namibia

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: D Layne Coppock; Lucas Crowley; Susan L Durham; Dylan Groves; Julian C Jamison; Dean Karlan; Brien E Norton; R Douglas Ramsey

A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Edward Asiedu; Dean Karlan; Monica Lambon Quayefio; Christopher Udry

Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Emily Aiken; Suzanne Bellue; Christopher Udry; Dean Karlan; Joshua Blumenstock

Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms: Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ricardo Godoy; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Edward Asiedu; Dean Karlan; Monica P. Lambon-Quaye; Christopher R. Udry

Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Nathan Barker; Gharad Bryan; Dean Karlan; Angela Oforiatta; Christopher Udry

Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Greg Fischer; Dean Karlan; Matt Lowe; Benjamin N. Roth

Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms: Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ricardo Godoy; Dean Karlan; Jonathan Zinman

Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Greg Fischer; Dean Karlan; Matt Lowe; Benjamin Roth

Smiles in Profiles: Improving Fairness and Efficiency Using Estimates of User Preferences in Online Marketplaces

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Susan Athey; Dean Karlan; Emil Palikot; Yuan Yuan

Social Protection and Social Distancing during the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Matt Lowe; Robert Darko Osei; Isaac Oseiakoto; Benjamin N. Roth; Christopher R. Udry

Passing the Message: Peer Outreach about COVID-19 Precautions in Zambia

Year: 2022
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Alfredo Burlando; Pradeep Chintagunta; Jessica Goldberg; Melissa Graboyes; Peter Hangoma; Dean Karlan; Mario Macis; Silvia Prina

Give Me a Pass: Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Lasse Brune; Xavier Gin; Dean Karlan

Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Gharad Bryan; Dean Karlan; Adam Osman

Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dean Karlan; Matt Lowe; Robert Osei; Isaac Osei Akoto; Benjamin Roth; Christopher Udry

Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces: Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Emily Aiken; Suzanne Bellue; Joshua Blumenstock; Dean Karlan; Christopher R. Udry


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