Dean Karlan ist ein Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Yale University, der sich auf Verhaltensökonomie und deren Anwendung zur Armutsbekämpfung konzentriert. Seine Arbeit untersucht, wie psychologische Faktoren wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen beeinflussen und wie diese Erkenntnisse zur Gestaltung wirksamerer Politikmaßnahmen und Interventionen genutzt werden können. Karlans Forschung legt Wert auf empirische Beweise und Feldversuche, die darauf abzielen, globale Armutsprobleme zu verstehen und anzugehen.
The recent push for impact measurement has been positive, but it has also led to wasted resources and often misleading data about what works. In The Goldilocks Challenge, Mary Kay Gugerty and Dean Karlan put forth four key principles to guide organizations of all sizes to create strong, "right-fit" data collection systems.
Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy
A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work. American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. At last we have a realistic way forward. Presenting innovative and successful development interventions around the globe, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel show how empirical analysis coupled with the latest thinking in behavioral economics can make a profound difference. From Kenya, where teenagers reduced their risk of contracting AIDS by having more unprotected sex with partners their own age, to Mexico, where giving kids a one-dollar deworming pill boosted school attendance better than paying their families to send them, More Than Good Intentions reveals how to invest those billions far more effectively and begin transforming the well-being of the world.