- Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo (born 1972) is a French
economist , currently the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology .She first studied at the French
École normale supérieure , where she graduated inhistory andeconomics . In 1999, she was hired as an assistant professor by the MIT department of economics, joining the department immediately after she completed her Ph.D., also at MIT. She was promoted to associate professor (with tenure) in 2002, at the age of 29, making her among the youngest faculty at the Institute to be awarded tenure.Her major research focus is on
Development economics , with an emphasis on health, education, gender and politics, and provision of credit. Together with Abhijit Banerjee, Marianne Bertrand, Jeff Carpenter,Dean Karlan ,Michael Kremer ,John List , andSendhil Mullainathan , she has been a driving force in advancingfield experiment s as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics.She was awarded the Elaine Bennet Prize for Research by the
American Economic Association in 2003. This prize honors a woman economist under the age of forty who has made outstanding contributions in any field of economic research. In 2005,Le Monde awarded her the Best Young French Economist prize.Esther Duflo serves as founding editor of the , and co-editor of the
Review of Economics and Statistics and theJournal of Development Economics .She is currently a co-director of the
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, and writes a monthly column forLibération , a French daily.The US magazine
Foreign Policy named her as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008. [ [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4293 Foreign Policy: Top 100 Intellectuals] ]References
External links and references
* [http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo/ Esther Duflo's Home Page]
* [http://www.povertyactionlab.com Poverty Action Lab]
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