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Esther Duflo, FBA (French:; born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Unusual lessons: Editorial on Esther Duflo's book 'Poor Economics for Kids'
The poor should know about the economics of poverty. This is what the economist, Esther Du...
The Telegraph
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Letters to the Editor: ‘Chaarsau bees’ will continue to live on in popular parlance
Its imprint extended far beyond the realm of law and justice — ‘chaarsau bees’ is used all over the country to describe someone who is cunni...
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Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Chaire, Pauvreté et politiques publiques at the Collège de France.
Oct 14, 2019 · Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, innovative MIT economists whose antipoverty research has given new prominence to the use of field experiments in social science, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics, along with Harvard University economist Michael Kremer.
Women as policy makers: Evidence from a randomized policy experiment in India. R Chattopadhyay, E Duflo. Econometrica 72 (5), 1409-1443. , 2004. 3090. 2004. The economic lives of the poor. AV...
Esther Duflo. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019. Born: 25 October 1972, Paris, France. Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 was awarded jointly to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"
Esther Duflo: a presidency to assert PSE’s international influence. Esther Duflo holds the Poverty and Public Policy Chair at the Collège de France, and is Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
ESTHER DUFLO January 2024 Department: Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Building E52-544 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: (617) 258-7013 Fax: (617) 253-1330 Email: eduflo@mit.edu Citizenship: French and American Education: 1999 Ph.D. in Economics, MIT
Esther Duflo reflects on the relative lack of women working in the field of economics and how to adapt the profession to attract a wider sphere of people. She also discusses the way that local experiments can often uncover general principles that can be applied to problems of poverty worldwide.