Esther Duflo

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Esther Duflo
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Born (1972-10-25) 25 October 1972 (age 51)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Institution MIT
Field Social economics
Development economics
Alma mater École Normale Supérieure
Paris School of Economics
MIT
Influences Amartya Sen[1]
Abhijit Banerjee
Michael Kremer
Influenced Barack Obama[2]
Awards John Bates Clark Medal (2010)
Calvó-Armengol International Prize (2010)
Dan David Prize (2013)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Esther Duflo (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Duflo is an NBER Research Associate,[3] serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD),[4] and is Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research's development economics program.[5]

Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation. Together with Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Michael Kremer, John A. List, and Sendhil Mullainathan, she has been a driving force in advancing field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics.

Education

After studying in Lycée Henri-IV's "classes préparatoires BL" Duflo completed her undergraduate studies at École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1994, received a master's degree from DELTA in Paris (Now, Paris School of Economics) jointly with École Normale Supérieure in 1995, and completed a PhD in Economics at MIT in 1999 under joint supervision of Abhijit Banerjee and Joshua Angrist. Upon completing her MIT PhD she was appointed assistant professor of economics at MIT, and has been at MIT ever since, aside from being on leave to Princeton University in 2001–2002.[6] 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.

Awards

Esther Duflo at Pop!Tech 2009

She is winner of Infosys Prize 2014 in Social Science-Economics.

She is a recipient of the 2010 John Bates Clark Medal for economists under the age of forty who are judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.[7] She received her (first) honorary doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium on 2 February 2010.[8]

In 2009 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, otherwise known as a "genius" grant.[9] She is also a fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2009.[10] On 21 May 2009 she was selected as the first recipient of the Calvó-Armengol International Prize, which she finally received on 4 June 2010. This is awarded every two years to a top young researcher in economics or the social sciences for contributions to the theory and comprehension of the mechanisms of social interaction.[11]

The US magazine Foreign Policy named her as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008.[12] In 2010, Foreign Policy again named her to its list of top 100 global thinkers.[13] The Economist lists Duflo as one of the top 8 young economists in the world.[14] She was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in April 2011.[15]

In 2005, Le Monde, Cercle des économistes awarded her the Best Young French Economist prize.[16] She was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize by the American Economic Association in 2002.[17] This prize honors a woman economist under the age of forty who has made outstanding contributions in any field of economic research.

In 2012 Duflo was picked by Foreign Policy magazine as one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers.[18]

She received the 2015 Princess of Asturias Social Sciences Spanish award.[19][20]

Other professional activities

Esther Duflo serves as founding editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Development Economics, and is a member of the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Economics. Duflo is also a member of the Human Capital Research Programme within the International Growth Centre.

She is currently a co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, and writes a monthly column for Libération, a French daily.

Duflo was the main speaker at the first Bocconi Lecture of Bocconi University in 2010,[21] followed in 2011 by Caroline Hoxby.

Publications

In April 2011 she released her latest book Poor Economics, co-authored with Abhijit V. Banerjee. It documents their 15 years of experience in conducting randomized control trials to alleviate poverty.[22] The book has received a very positive acclaim. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen commented on book "A marvelously insightful book by the two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty." [23]

References

  1. ↑ "Esther Duflo, première économiste du développement honorée de la médaille Clark"
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ NBER Family members in Economics of Education
  4. ↑ BREAD Board of Directors
  5. ↑ Program Directors in each Program of CEPR
  6. ↑ About Esther Duflo
  7. ↑ List of John Bates Clark Medal by American Economic Association
  8. ↑ Inaugural lecture by Esther Duflo at the conferral of her honorary doctorate, Université catholique de Louvain (French).
  9. ↑ MacArthur Fellows Program 2009 Fellows
  10. ↑ American Academy of Arts and Sciences Book of Members, 1780–2010 Chapter D page.25
  11. ↑ Prof. Esther Duflo Wins the Inaugural Calvó-Armengol Prize
  12. ↑ Foreign Policy: Top 100 Intellectuals
  13. ↑ Foreign Policy Magazine: Top 100 Global Thinkers
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Time Magazine: The 2011 Time 100: Esther Duflo
  16. ↑ The award for best young economist: The prize history of the Circle of economists
  17. ↑ ANNOUNCEMENT FOR RECIPIENT OF THE 2002 ELAINE BENNETT RESEARCH PRIZE
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ http://instat.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/bocconi-lecture-esther-duflo-professor-of-economics-massachussets-institute-of-technology/
  22. ↑ About the Book Poor Economics
  23. ↑ Editorial Review at Amazon.com

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