Dean Karlan

30.5k citations
215 papers · 12.5k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 51
Topics
Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (96 papers)Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (52 papers)Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (37 papers)

In The Last Decade

Dean Karlan

194 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence From a Commitment Sa...200620262012201920062014201520152009250500750

Peers

Dean Karlan
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  • Economics and Econometrics 7.5k
  • Accounting 3.6k
  • Safety Research 3.0k
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.6k
  • Management Information Systems 1.4k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Dean Karlan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dean Karlan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dean Karlan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dean Karlan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dean Karlan. Dean Karlan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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About Dean Karlan

Dean Karlan is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Business and International Management and Accounting, having authored 215 papers that have together received 12.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (96 papers), Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (52 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (37 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Business and International Management (908 citations), General Decision Sciences (760 citations) and Safety Research (3.0k citations). Dean Karlan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan Zinman, Christopher Udry, Xavier Giné, Naeem Ashraf, Wen‐Yan Yin, Abhijit Banerjee, Robert Osei, Martín Valdivia, John A. List and Sendhil Mullainathan. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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