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Esther Duflo, FBA (French:; 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]
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee [1] and Esther Duflo, [2] both professors of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates.
During Duflo's childhood, her mother often participated in medical humanitarian projects. [19] [20] After studying in the B/L program of Lycée Henri-IV's Classes préparatoires, Duflo began her undergraduate studies at École normale supérieure in Paris, planning to study history, her interest since childhood. In her second year, she began ...
MIT economist Esther Duflo is one of three recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics for her work in what the committee called an experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.  ...
Duflo isn’t alone in that opinion–69% of people in the U.S and 84% of people in Europe support a global tax on millionaires, according to research by the French Association of Environmental ...
In 2015, Banerjee married his co-researcher, MIT professor Esther Duflo; they have two children. [33] [34] Banerjee was a joint supervisor of Duflo's PhD in economics at MIT in 1999. [33] [35] Duflo is also a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. [36]
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems is a 2019 nonfiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of economics at MIT. It was published on November 12, 2019 by PublicAffairs (US), Juggernaut Books (India), and Allen Lane (UK).
Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2019. In 2019, J-PAL co-founders Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee were selected as the co-recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside Michael Kremer, then of Harvard University. The award was granted for Duflo, Banerjee, and ...