Melanie Morten

Melanie Morten is an Associate Professor at Stanford’s Department of Economics, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in 2024. Morten is interested in how households respond to risk in developing countries, including using short term and temporary migration. She received her PhD from Yale in May 2013 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve.