Esther Duflo is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which was established in 2003.
18 Facts About Esther Duflo
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Esther Duflo shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
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Esther Duflo's research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation.
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Esther Duflo spent ten months in Moscow starting in 1993.
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Esther Duflo finished her degree in history and economics at Ecole Normale Superieure in 1994 and received a master's degree from DELTA, now the Paris School of Economics, jointly with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of the Universite Paris Sciences et Lettres and the Ecole Normale Superieure, in 1995.
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Esther Duflo was promoted to associate professor in 2002, at 29, making her among the youngest faculty members to be awarded tenure, and to full professor in 2003.
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In 2004, together with several colleagues, Esther Duflo conducted another experiment in India.
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Esther Duflo became increasingly convinced that communities supporting women candidates could expect economic benefits, but she experienced difficulty in convincing her peers.
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Esther Duflo entered the public sphere in 2013, when she sat on the new Global Development Committee, which advised former US President Barack Obama on issues regarding development aid in poor countries.
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Esther Duflo is an NBER research associate, a board member of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research's development economics program, where she serves as both a board member and a director.
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Esther Duflo was the founding editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, editor of The American Economic Review, and a co-editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Development Economics.
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Esther Duflo writes a monthly column for Liberation, a French daily newspaper.
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Esther Duflo was the main speaker at the first Bocconi Lecture of Bocconi University in 2010, followed in 2011 by Caroline Hoxby.
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In 2020, it was announced that Esther Duflo would become chair of the Fund for Innovation in Development, an organization hosted by the French Development Agency that provides grants to develop and scale interventions for poverty and inequality.
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Esther Duflo is married to MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee; the couple have two children.
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Esther Duflo has published numerous papers, receiving 6,200 citations in 2017.
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Esther Duflo was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2019 along with her two co-researchers Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
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Esther Duflo is the youngest person and the second woman to win this award.