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1 STEFAN KLONNER Curriculum Vitae Date of Birth: EDUCATION RUPRECHT KARLS UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG Autumn 1993 to Spring 1995 Undergraduate studies in economics Vordiplom (Undergraduate Degree), Economics, May 1995 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY September 1995 to September 1996 Graduate studies in statistics and econometrics Master of Statistics (Econometrics), October 1996 RUPRECHT KARLS UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG January 1997 to October 2001 Ph. D. student in economics Doctor rerum politicarum (Ph.D. in Economics, grade: summa cum laude, supervisors: Clive Bell and Benny Moldovanu), November 2001 POSITIONS HELD SÜDASIEN INSTITUT, RUPRECHT KARLS UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG January 1997 to October 2001: Research and teaching assistant in the Department of Economics May 2003 to August 2003: Lecturer in the Department of Economics ECONOMIC GROWTH CENTER, YALE UNIVERSITY November 2001 to December 2002: Postdoctoral Fellow January 2003 to May 2003: Visiting Lecturer of Economics CORNELL UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS August 2003 to June 2008: Assistant Professor of Economics GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS August 2007 to June 2010: Professor of International and Development Economics SÜDASIEN INSTITUT, RUPRECHT KARLS UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG Since July 2010: Professor of Development Economics, South Asia VISITING APPOINTMENTS INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE (ISEC), BANGALORE November to December 2005: Visiting Professor of Economics

2 Curriculum Vitae Stefan Klonner Page 2 GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS October 2006 to July 2007: Visiting Professor of Economics INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (ISB), HYDERABAD February to March 2007: Visiting Professor of Economics HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS Fulbright Travel Grant for US Studies, 1995 Grantee of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Government Funded Scholarship Organization) since 1997 Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service for field study in India, 2001 Conference Travel Grant from the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), 1999, 2000, 2002 Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service for twelve-month postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University, 2001 Cornell Einaudi International Studies Center Seed Grant, $5000, ABN Amro Bank, Germany: 60,000 for three-year doctoral fellowship in microfinance research (current grantee: Kristina Czura) PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed journals Private Information and Altruism in Bidding Roscas, 2008, Economic Journal, 118 (April): Inequality and Economic Performance in Rural India since 1955 (with Clive Bell), 2005, Agricultural Economics, 33 (1): Rotating Savings and Credit Associations when Participants are Risk-averse, 2003, International Economic Review, 44 (3): The First-order Stochastic Dominance Ordering of Singh-Maddala Distributions, 2000, Economics Letters, 69 (2): Refereed volumes Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption by the Poor: Lessons from South-Indian Small-Scale Fishery (with Xavier Giné), 2008, in: Globalization and the Poor in Asia: Can Shared Growth Be Sustained?, M. Nissanke and E. Thorbecke, eds: New York: Palgrave- Macmillan. Non-banking Financial Companies, 2007, in: The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, K. Basu, ed.: New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

3 Curriculum Vitae Stefan Klonner Page 3 Estimating Pro-poor Indices from Time Series Data: Concepts and an Application to Rural India, 2006, in: Pro-Poor Growth: Issues, Policies and Evidence, L. Menkhoff, ed.: Berlin: Duncker und Humblot. Other volumes Quantitative Experimentelle Designs, 2010, in: Verfahren der Wirkungsanalyse. Ein Handbuch für die entwicklungspolitische Praxis, Arbeitskreis "Evaluation von Entwicklungspolitik", ed.: Freiburg im Breisgau: Arnold- Bergstraesser-Institut Recent working papers Quantitative Experimentelle Designs, 2010, in: Verfahren der Wirkungsanalyse. Ein Handbuch für die entwicklungspolitische Praxis, Arbeitskreis "Evaluation von Entwicklungspolitik", ed.: Freiburg im Breisgau: Arnold- Bergstraesser-Institut Economic Distress and Farmer Suicides in India: An Econometric Investigation, AWI Discussion Paper Series No. 565, 2014 (with Sarah Hebous) Safety Net for India's Poor or Waste of Public Funds? Poverty and Welfare in the Wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program, AWI Discussion Paper Series No. 564, 2014 (with Christian Oldiges) Does Semi-formal Credit Help to Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from Roscas and the Indian Ocean Tsunami, with Kristina Czura, August 2010 (with Kristina Czura) PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND RESEARCH SEMINARS Conferences a) Presentations in Contributed Sessions 1999 Young Economist Meeting in Amsterdam, April 10-11, th World Congress of the International Economic Association, Buenos Aires, August 23-27, Congress of the European Economic Association, Santiago de Compostela, September 1-4, World Congress of the Econometric Society in Seattle, Wa., August 11-16, Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), Berlin, September 19-22, Northeast Universities Development Conference, Ithaca, NY, October 6-7, Northeast Universities Development Conference, Boston, Ma., September 28-30, th World Congress of the International Economic Association, Lisbon, September 9-13, 2002.

4 Curriculum Vitae Stefan Klonner Page 4 Northeast Universities Development Conference, Williamstown, Ma., October 25-27, Northeast Universities Development Conference, New Haven, Ct., October 17-19, Years of Development Research: An International Colloquium at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 7-9, Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 21-23, First Annual Meeting of German Economists Abroad, Bielefeld, December 18-20, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Conference Threshold Dynamics and Poverty Traps, Washington DC, May 11-12, Northeast Universities Development Conference, Providence, RI, September 23-25, Northeast Universities Development Conference, Ithaca, NY, September 29-30, of the German Economic Association, Göttingen, June 29-30, First Annual Conference of the Network for Poverty, Equality and Growth (PEGNET), Berlin, September 6-7, of the German Economic Association, Zürich, May 30-31, Second Annual Conference of the Network for Poverty, Equality and Growth (PEGNET), Accra (Ghana), September 11-12, th International Tor Vergata Conference on Banking and Finance, Rome, December 3-5, of the German Economic Association, Frankfurt, June 26-27, th IZA/World Bank Conference: Employment and Development, Cape Town (South Africa), May 3-4, of the German Economic Association, Hannover, June 18-19, Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), Frankfurt am Main, September 4-7, Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, December 19-21, The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai, March 26-28, b) Presentations in Invited Sessions CIRPÉE Second Mini Conference on Development Economics, Montreal, February 20-21, European University Institute, Conference The Micro Foundations of Credit Contracts, Florence, May 21-22, University of Groningen, Workshop Does Microfinance Work?, Groningen, July 1-2, 2005.

5 Curriculum Vitae Stefan Klonner Page 5 of the German Economic Association, Institute for World Economics, Kiel, July 8-9, Institute for Industrial Economics (IDEI), University of Toulouse, Conference The Econometrics of Auctions, Toulouse, May 12-13, Joint World Bank and Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Conference on Growth in India and the World, New Delhi, December 14-15, Conference on Microeconometric Analysis: Methodology, Data, and Empirics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, March 10 11, Joint Wharton/ISB Conference on India s Financial System, Philadelphia, April 19 21, Workshop on Rigorous Impact Analysis in Development Co-operation, German Development Institute, Bonn, September 16-17, Ökonomie und Staat in Afrika: Neue Paradigmen und Konzepte, Public Lecture Series Afrika in Bewegung, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, November 23, Global Development Network Annual Conference, Panel Session Rethinking Microfinance, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, January 13-14, The Indian Microfinance Crisis, Public Panel Discussion organized by the South Asia Institute and Oikocredit, Heidelberg, September 28, of the German Economic Association, Panel Discussion Was kann Mikrofinanz wirklich erreichen? Munich, June 21, Mind and Culture: The Behavioral and Social Foundations of Economic Development From Research Framework to Practice (in Preparation for the World Development Report 2015), World Bank and Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Berlin, December 5-6, Barriers to Development, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Berlin, May 22-23, Essex Development Workshop, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, June 26-27, Research Seminars 2001 Institute of Economic Education, Chennai; Tilburg University; Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank 2002 Boston University; Yale University 2003 Brown University; University of California, Irvine; Cornell University; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank

6 Curriculum Vitae Stefan Klonner Page Cornell University 2005 ENS Jourdan, Paris; Boston University; Institute of Economic Education, Chennai; Goethe Universität Frankfurt; University of Guelph; Harvard University; IDEI, Toulouse; University of Madras; Madras Institute of Development Studies; Madras School of Economics; Pennsylvania State University 2006 University of California, Berkeley; Universität Göttingen; Wageningen University 2007 Oxford University; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; University of Washington, Seattle; Yale University; Rutgers University; University of Edinburgh; University of Essex; Universität Hohenheim; Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn 2008 Institute for Social Studies, Den Haag; Universität Heidelberg 2009 Universität Kiel; Universität Göttingen; Yale University 2010 Cambridge University 2011 Oxford University 2013 Osnabrück 2014 Nürnberg Teaching at Summer Universities and Short Courses 2008 The European Union and China - A New Economic Partnership in a Globalized World?, Shanghai (China) 2009 The European Union - An Example for Latin American Integration?, Sao Paulo (Brazil) 2010

7 Curriculum Vitae Stefan Klonner Page 7 Social Sciences at German Universities, Workshop organized by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2-4 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Academic a) Committee Work: Ph. D. Program Legislation Committee, Cornell University, 2003/04 Graduate Admissions Committee, Cornell University, 2004/05, 2005/06 Faculty Recruitment Committee, Frankfurt, 2007, 2008 Special Admissions Committee, Frankfurt, 2008 Speaker of the research group Applied Econometrics and International Economic Policy, Frankfurt, Member Fachbereichsrat and Strategiekommittee, Frankfurt, Member Promotionsausschuß, Heidelberg, Ph. D. Student Committee Member of: Patrick Nolen (Cornell 06; Lecturer, University of Essex), Kiran Gajwani (Cornell 08), Hyejin Ku (Cornell 07; Assitant Professor, Florida State University), Emma Stephens (Cornell 07; Assistant Professor, Pfizer College), Sudha Narayan (Cornell 11), Cesar Miralles Cabrera (Frankfurt 08), Gunhild Berg (Frankfurt 10, World Bank), Kristina Czura (Frankfurt 12) b) Refereeing: Academic Journals: Agricultural Economics, American Economic Journal: Micro, American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Journal, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of International Development, Journal of Political Economy, Metroeconomica, Oxford Development Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Income and Wealth, World Bank Economic Review, World Development Grants: British Academy, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft (DFG), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 3ie c) Conference and Workshops Organized: International Workshop Intermarriage: US and International Perspectives (with David Harris), Cornell University, March 10, 2006 International Conference on Marriage and Family: Complexities and Perspectives (with Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, Claire Dush, Elizabeth Peters, Maureen Waller and Lindy Williams), Cornell University, April 7-8, 2006 North East Universities Development Conference (with Kaushik Basu), Cornell University, September 29-30, 2006 Annual Meeting of the Research Committee of the German Economic Association, Frankfurt, June 26-27, 2009

8 Curriculum Vitae Stefan Klonner Page 8 Public Panel Discussion The Indian Microfinance Crisis, Heidelberg, September 28, 2011 Inter-University Doctoral Workshop Development Economics, Heidelberg, September 29, 2011 d) Field Studies: Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India, January/February 2001 Informal finance in a Tamil agricultural village Tamil Nadu, India, January 2002 Interlinked credit and marketing contracts; semi-formal financial intermediation in urban areas Bangalore and Chennai, India, November/December 2005 Farmers Suicides in South India, Semi-formal credit in urban South India Hyderabad, India, February/March 2007 Farmers suicides in South India e) Membership: Member of the Research Committee for Development Economics of the German Economic Association, since June Other LANDESGIROKASSE STUTTGART, GERMANY Bank Apprenticeship, 1990 to 1992 Qualifications earned: Bankkaufmann (Bank administrator license), Finanzassistent (Financial advisor) UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION, NEW YORK, USA Internship, October to December 1996 Statistical and conceptual work in the Small Islands Development States Unit (SIDS)

STEFAN KLONNER Curriculum Vitae Date of Birth:

STEFAN KLONNER Curriculum Vitae Date of Birth: 29.01.1971 EDUCATION RUPRECHT KARLS UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG Autumn 1993 to Spring 1995 Undergraduate studies in economics Vordiplom (Undergraduate Degree),