Christopher Udry is the Henry J. Heinz, II Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has conducted extensive field research in West Africa on technological change in agriculture, the use of financial markets, asset accumulation and gift exchange to cope with risk, gender relations and the structure of household economies, property rights and a variety of other aspects of rural economic organization. He spent two years as a secondary school teacher in northern Ghana, and has been a visiting scholar at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and at the University of Ghana at Legon. At Yale, Udry has directed the Economic Growth Center and served as the Chair of the Department of Economics. He teaches graduate courses on development economics, and undergraduate courses on Economic Development in Africa.

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Dean Karlan is a Professor of Econmics at Yale University. His research focuses on using field experiments to learn what social policies work, what do not, and why. Most of his work is in developing countries and typically examines microfinance programs for the poor. Other research covers fundraising, voting, education and behavioral economics. Karlan is a research fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-Pal) at the Massassuchets Institute of Technology. Karlan is also the President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

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Dean Karlan

Dean Karlan is a Professor of Econmics at Yale University. His research focuses on using field experiments to learn what social policies work, what do not, and why. Most of his work is in developing countries and typically examines microfinance programs for the poor. Other research covers fundraising, voting, education and behavioral economics. Karlan is a research fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-Pal) at the Massassuchets Institute of Technology. Karlan is also the President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

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Yale Economic Growth Center The Economic Growth Center's objective is studying and promoting understanding of the economic development process within low-income countries. Innovation for Poverty Action IPA uses rigorous research approach to test and implement poverty reduction measures University of Ghana- Legon The University of Ghana Legon is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian universities and tertiary institutions