Esther Duflo
| Esther Duflo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 October 1972 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Institution | MIT |
| Field |
Social economics Development economics |
| Alma mater |
École Normale Supérieure Paris School of Economics MIT |
| Doctoral advisor |
Abhijit Banerjee Joshua Angrist |
| Doctoral students |
Dean Karlan |
| Influences |
Amartya Sen Michael Kremer |
| Influenced | Barack Obama |
| Awards |
John Bates Clark Medal (2010) Calvó-Armengol International Prize (2010) Dan David Prize (2013) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Esther Duflo (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Duflo is an NBER Research Associate, serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and is Director of the Center for Economic and 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, Dean Karlan, Michael Kremer, John A. List, and Sendhil Mullainathan, she has been a driving force in advancing field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics.
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