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Dean Karlan

  • Professor of Economics, Yale University
Evanston, New York
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Economics and Finance Professor, Northwestern University; founder, Innovations for Poverty Action; former Chief Economist, USAID
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The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps

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By Dean Karlan, Amol Raswan, Christopher Udry
| National Bureau of Economic Research
We thank Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil for feedback and the geographic data for the river erosion analysis; Nathan Barker, Gharad Bryan, Robin Burgess, Supreet Kaur, Daniel Keniston, Tavneet Suri, and Francesco Trebbi and seminar participants at UC Berkeley for insightful comments; Harneet Singh and Thu Tran for excellent research assistance; and Oriana Bandiera for extensive comments and discussions.
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DP21434 The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps

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By Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry, Amol Raswan
| The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
English Français Deutsch Italiano 中文 More Español Ελληνικά 日本語 Português Türkçe Much of development economics, both micro and macro, posits theories and explores the empirics of poverty traps. A common theory centers around asset-threshold poverty traps in which marginal returns to capital increase sharply over a certain threshold and financial markets are incomplete. This combination leads households above this threshold to prosper while those below continuously fall back, trapped in poverty.
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Can Email Reminders Help Fix the Savings Crisis?

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By Dean Karlan
| Insight Unpacked
There’s a savings crisis in America. Nearly 40 percent of Americans have less than a month of income saved. A third of Americans have no emergency savings at all. And most people, even those with access to a defined contribution plan at work such as a 401(k), are not saving enough for retirement.
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