# Esther Duflo
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esther duflo, FBA (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
In addition to her academic appointment, Duflo is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT-based research center promoting the use of randomized controlled trials in policy evaluation.
Tackling Extreme Poverty through Programmes Targeting the World's Ultra-Poor
Contributor(s): Oriana Bandiera, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Professor Esther Duflo, Anna Minj, Muhammad Musa, Desmond Swayne
Poor Economics; A Radical Rethinking of the way to Fight Global Poverty
Contributor(s): Professor Abhijit Banerjee, Professor Esther Duflo
Weddings
Dominic tries to convince Cassidy that weddings are technically economics.
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“'Memories Fade, Bills Don't': Wedding Debt Survey Reveals Remorse” by Erika Giovanetti
“The Wedding Fix Is In” by Catherine Rampell
“Diamonds Aren’t Rare. Why Are They So in Demand?” by Amanda Mull
“Continuity a…
#30 – Matthew O. Jackson on How Networks Quietly Shape What You Believe
Welcome back to Scaling Theory. In this episode, I speak with Matthew O. Jackson, the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. Matthew is one of the founders of the modern economics of networks and the author of The Hu…
S7 Ep25: Roshaneh Zafar on 30 years of microfinance and mindset change in Pakistan
Wherever Roshaneh Zafar went in Pakistan in the early 1990s, documenting World Bank social development projects, women told her the same thing: the water and sanitation are fine, but what about economic opportunity?
Zafar tells Tim Phillips how that question led her to train with Muhammad Yunus a…
A Conversation with Abhijit Banerjee: Poor Economics, 15 Years On
Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee revisits the central ideas of his seminal work Poor Economics, co-authored with Esther Duflo, fifteen years after its publication. In this talk, Professor Banerjee reflects on what we’ve learned about poverty alleviation from a decade and a half of field experiments,…
Encouraging Social Distancing: evidence from RCTs | Markus' Academy | Ep. 52
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On February 11, 2021, Esther Duflo joined Markus’ Academy to present RCT evidence on encouraging social dist…
S7 Ep38: How AI can put 20 years of development evidence to work
A farmer in rural Ghana can use her phone to take a picture of a blighted leaf, upload it, and within seconds she gets a diagnosis that takes account of the soil, the weather, and the other local conditions. Score one for AI. We don't have enough human experts because they are hard to train, and …
ReThinking: Esther Duflo wants you to think like a plumber
When Esther Duflo took her first economics class, she hated it. In 2019, she won a Nobel Prize in economics. Esther talks with Adam about her groundbreaking experiments to fight poverty, busts myths about what motivates people, and reveals how to make meaningful progress toward solving daunting pro…
S7 Ep50: Evidence-based policy: Why one good trial isn't enough
Medicine has run rigorous clinical trials since the 1940s. Development economists borrowed the structure of the trials during the credibility revolution. Chris Cotton (Queen's University) argues that they misunderstood an important part of this revolution. One successful study is not a mature evi…
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