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Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo
Duflo in 2009
Born (1972-10-25) 25 October 1972 (age 51)
Paris, France
Nationality
  • French
    American since 2012
[7]
EducationÉcole normale supérieure, Paris (BA)
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (DEA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouse
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(m. 2015)​
Children2
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2019)
Princess of Asturias Awards (Social Sciences, 2015)
Infosys Prize (2014)
John von Neumann Award (2013)
Dan David Prize (2013)
John Bates Clark Medal (2010)
Calvó-Armengol International Prize (2010)
MacArthur Fellowship (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopment economics
Applied economics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorAbhijit Banerjee[1]
Joshua Angrist[1]
Doctoral studentsDean Karlan[2]
Rema Hanna[3]
Nancy Qian[4]
Vincent Pons[5]
Rachael Meager[6]

Esther Duflo, FBA (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist[8] who is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

She is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), founded in 2003 and supported by Community Jameel; holds the Poverty and Public Policy chair at the Collège de France since 2022; and is president of the Paris School of Economics since 2024.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] She shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit Banerjee[18] and Michael Kremer,[19] "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".[20]

Duflo is a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)[21] research associate, a board member of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD),[22] director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research's development economics program. Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation. Together with Abhijit Banerjee,[18] Dean Karlan,[23] Michael Kremer,[19] John A. List,[24] and Sendhil Mullainathan,[25] she has been a driving force in advancing field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics. Together with Abhijit Banerjee, she wrote Poor Economics[26] and Good Economics for Hard Times,[27] published in April 2011 and November 2019, respectively. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Duflo is the seventh most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses.[28]

  1. ^ a b Duflo, Esther (1999), Essays in empirical development economics. PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  2. ^ Karlan, Dean S. (2002), Social capital and microfinance. PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  3. ^ Hanna, Rema (2005), Essays in development and environmental economics. PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  4. ^ Qian, Nancy (2005), Three essays on development economics in China. PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  5. ^ Pons, Vincent (2014) The determinants of political behavior : evidence from three randomized field experiments. PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  6. ^ Meager, Rachael (2017) Evidence aggregation in development economics via Bayesian hierarchical models. PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  7. ^ "Esther Duflo CV" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Esther Duflo Short Bio and CV". Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  9. ^ https://www.povertyactionlab.org Retrieved July 24, 2020, Friday
  10. ^ Biswas, Soutik (15 October 2019). "The Nobel couple fighting poverty cliches". BBC. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  11. ^ "Esther Duflo, Prix Nobel 2019, va diriger l'Ecole d'économie de Paris". Le Monde (in French). 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  12. ^ "La Prix Nobel Esther Duflo prend la tête de l'Ecole d'économie de Paris". Libération (in French). 11 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  13. ^ "Esther Duflo, new president of the Paris School of Economics". Paris School of Economics. 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  14. ^ "J-PAL co-founder Esther Duflo elected president of the Paris School of Economics". Community Jameel. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  15. ^ "Esther Duflo - Pauvreté et politiques publiques | Collège de France". Collège de France (in French). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  16. ^ Rocco, Anne-Marie (15 January 2024). "Qui est Esther Duflo, la nouvelle présidente de Paris School of Economics ?". Challenges (in French). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  17. ^ "Esther Duflo appointed President of the Paris School of Economics". CEPR. 15 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  18. ^ a b https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/banerjee/short Retrieved July 24, 2020, Friday
  19. ^ a b https://scholar.harvard.edu/kremer/home Archived 5 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 24, 2020, Friday
  20. ^ Cite error: The named reference NobelWeb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  21. ^ https://www.nber.org Retrieved July 24, 2020, Friday
  22. ^ http://ibread.org/bread/ Retrieved July 24, 2020, Friday
  23. ^ http://deankarlan.com Retrieved July 25, 2020, Saturday
  24. ^ "John List – Home Page". voices.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  25. ^ "Sendhil Mullainathan". The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  26. ^ https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo/pooreconomics Archived 10 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 24, 2020, Friday
  27. ^ http://news.mit.edu/2019/good-economics-hard-times-1112 Retrieved July 24, 2020, Friday
  28. ^ "Open Syllabus Project". Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2021.