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Esther Duflo is a French-American economist at MIT who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize for her experimental approach to poverty research and became the youngest person and second woman to win the economics Nobel.
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Esther Duflo ranks #21 of 253 in the Economist ranking, behind Robert Shiller, ahead of Richard Thaler.
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Why did Esther Duflo win the 2019 economics Nobel?
Duflo shared the prize with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for an experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. At age 46, she became the youngest economics laureate at that time.
What does J-PAL have to do with Esther Duflo?
Duflo co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT with Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan in 2003. J-PAL supports randomized evaluations of policies involving health, education, finance, and other dimensions of poverty.
What kinds of experiments does Duflo conduct?
Her teams use randomized controlled trials to compare policy treatments with control groups in real communities. Examples include testing incentives for immunization, educational interventions, and ways to increase the use of preventive health products.
What is Poor Economics about?
Poor Economics, written by Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, examines how people living on very low incomes make decisions about health, schooling, credit, and consumption. The 2011 book argues for testing specific interventions instead of relying only on broad ideological claims.
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