Melanie Morten is Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. As a development economist, Morten's research seeks to improve understanding of the migratory processes of low-income individuals by focusing on the effects and the determinants of migration. She co-leads the Guestworker Migration Initiative, a research project funded in part by Stanford Impact Labs.
As a SIL Design Fellow, Morten conducted a research project focused on the economic impacts of migration, working with partners to design programs and policies able to generate the most significant benefits to the world’s most impoverished people.