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Jonathan Morduch

Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

Morduch's research focuses on finance, poverty, and inequality. He is a founder and Executive Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative.

Morduch is the author with Rachel Schneider of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty (Princeton 2017; project site) and co-author of Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton 2009) and The Economics of Microfinance (MIT Press 2010). He is co-editor of Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion (MIT Press). Together with Dean Karlan, Morduch is the author of Economics (McGraw-Hill 2020, 3rd ed.), an empirically-oriented principles of economics text now in its 3rd edition.

Morduch has taught on the Economics faculty at Harvard, and has held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, Hitotsubashi University and the University of Tokyo. He received a BA from Brown, Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard, and an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels for his work on microfinance.

Education 

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ph. D., M.A., Economics, November 1991. Fields in public finance and labor
economics. Dissertation: Risk and Welfare in Developing Countries.
 

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
A. B. Economics (Honors), May 1985. Lamport Prize for International
Understanding in Economics. Junior year at the London School of Economics.

 

 

Source: New York University 

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