Esther duflo: And Abhijit Banerjee

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, innovative MIT economists whose antipoverty research has given new prominence to the use of field experiments in social science, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics, along with Harvard University economist Michael Kremer. Esther Duflo is a development economist who studies the economic lives of people living in poverty and designs social policies. She is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor at MIT, co-founder of J-PAL, and co-author of Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times. Evidence from a randomized evaluation. Inequality and growth: What can the data say? Powerful women: does exposure reduce bias? Esther Duflo was born in Paris, where her mother was a pediatrician and her father a professor of mathematics. After studying history and economics at the École Normale Superieure and elsewhere, she completed her doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999.