Search results
Esther Duflo, FBA ( French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French – American economist [1] currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [2]
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.
Poor economics: A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. AV Banerjee, E Duflo. Public Affairs. , 2011. 5016. 2011. Women empowerment and economic development. E Duflo. Journal of...
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.
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.
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).
Biographical. I was born in 1972 at the Port Royal hospital, the “baby factory” of Paris. I grew up with my parents, Violaine Duflo (a pediatrician) and Michel Duflo (a math professor) in Asnières, a western suburb of Paris. I went to the local public schools until grade 11, and transferred to Henri IV, a magnet high school in the center ...
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).
Dec 5, 2019 · Esther Duflo won a Nobel Prize this year for her work in poor countries. Now, the French-American economist wants to use the limelight to rescue the battered reputation of her profession...
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.
