Learn about Esther Duflo, a French-American economist and Nobel laureate, who studies the economic lives of the poor and designs social policies. Find out her books, awards, and affiliations with MIT and J-PAL. Esther Duflo (born October 25, 1972, Paris, France) is a French-American economist who, with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for helping to develop an innovative experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Esther Duflo, FBA (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist [1] currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [2] The last thirty years present an astonishing paradox : while the world's richest have seen their fortunes multiply and their share of global income distribution become ever more overwhelming, the world's poorest have also enjoyed a period of remarkable progress. The number of people living in extreme poverty has been halved ; infant and maternal mortality have also been halved ; almost all the world's children now go to school ; diseases such as malaria and HIV-AIDS are much better ...
