Melanie Morten
Melanie Morten is an Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the labour mobility of low-income individuals and her work combines original data collection, field experiments, and economic modeling. Melanie’s research has been published in journals such as Journal of Political Economy, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of African Economics, and covered by media outlets such as The Economist, NPR, and the Washing Post. She graduated with a PhD from Yale University in 2013 and was named Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2019.