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Esther Duflo is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a research center dedicated to reducing poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence. She also previously served as Co-Chair of J-PAL’s Urban Services Initiative. Dr Esther’s research seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment, and governance. Dr Esther also holds leadership positions in various institutions. She is Director, Development Program at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Board Member, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She is also part of the Research Advisory Council at Y Analytics and an Advisory Board Member at UBS Center. Dr Esther has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (with co-Laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer), Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the A.SK Social Science Award (2015), Infosys Prize (2014), the David N. Kershaw Award (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009). With Abhijit Banerjee, she wrote Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011 and has been translated into more than 17 languages and has recently written Good Economics for Hard Times. In 2011 she was part of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. She is the Editor of the American Economic Review, a member of the National Academy of Science and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Dr Esther has a PhD in Economics from MIT and a master’s in Economics from DELTA (Paris).

Esther Duflo

Research Fellow
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Esther Duflo is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a research center dedicated to reducing poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence. She also previously served as Co-Chair of J-PAL’s Urban Services Initiative. Dr Esther’s research seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment, and governance. Dr Esther also holds leadership positions in various institutions. She is Director, Development Program at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Board Member, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She is also part of the Research Advisory Council at Y Analytics and an Advisory Board Member at UBS Center. Dr Esther has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (with co-Laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer), Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the A.SK Social Science Award (2015), Infosys Prize (2014), the David N. Kershaw Award (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009). With Abhijit Banerjee, she wrote Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011 and has been translated into more than 17 languages and has recently written Good Economics for Hard Times. In 2011 she was part of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. She is the Editor of the American Economic Review, a member of the National Academy of Science and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Dr Esther has a PhD in Economics from MIT and a master’s in Economics from DELTA (Paris).
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Esther Duflo
Research Fellow
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Esther Duflo is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a research center dedicated to reducing poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence. She also previously served as Co-Chair of J-PAL’s Urban Services Initiative. Dr Esther’s research seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment, and governance. Dr Esther also holds leadership positions in various institutions. She is Director, Development Program at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Board Member, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She is also part of the Research Advisory Council at Y Analytics and an Advisory Board Member at UBS Center. Dr Esther has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (with co-Laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer), Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the A.SK Social Science Award (2015), Infosys Prize (2014), the David N. Kershaw Award (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009). With Abhijit Banerjee, she wrote Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011 and has been translated into more than 17 languages and has recently written Good Economics for Hard Times. In 2011 she was part of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. She is the Editor of the American Economic Review, a member of the National Academy of Science and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Dr Esther has a PhD in Economics from MIT and a master’s in Economics from DELTA (Paris).