Esther Duflo, who along with Prof. Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer of Harvard was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, speaks with NPR’s Scott Horsley about her research pioneering an experimental approach to studying and alleviating poverty. She earned a master’s degree in economics the next year, jointly through the École Normale Supérieure and the École Polytechnique. Profs. The company Health at Scale uses machine learning to improve outcomes for individual patients. In one widely noted experiment, Duflo and Banerjee found that immunization rates for children in rural India jump dramatically (from 5 percent to 39 percent) when their families are offered modest incentives for immunization, such as lentils.They have also studied educational issues extensively, often with additional co-authors, uncovering new results about improvements in student achievement (when classes are divided into small groups) and ways to improve teacher attendance. After studying in the B/L program of Lycée Henri-IV's Classes préparatoires, Duflo began her undergraduate studies at École normale supérieure in Paris, planning to study history, her interest since childhood. MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee win Nobel Prize Professors share prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard University, are cited for breakthrough antipoverty work.MIT announces MITx MicroMasters program in development economics, with path to full master’s degree MIT alumnus William Nordhaus wins Nobel Prize in economic sciencesMore about MIT News at Massachusetts Institute of Technology New faculty in these areas will connect the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and a department or school. Kremer is a former MIT faculty member and postdoc who served at the Institute from 1992 to 1999, and remains an affiliated professor with J-PAL; he is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. The laureates, “revolutionized developmental economics by pioneering field experiments that generate practical insights into how poor people respond to education, health care and other programs meant to lift them out of poverty.”The AFP spotlights the work of Prof. Esther Duflo, one of the recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. In his latest letter, President L. Rafael Reif highlights three areas of "crucial work" for the MIT community. Duflo then earned her PhD in economics from MIT in 1999. Currently Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. “This is a prize for a whole movement of people who have really tried to go back to the field and tried to understand the problem of the poor in detail and try out solutions,” says Duflo.MIT Profs.
But it … Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee speak with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria about their Nobel Prize-winning research aimed at alleviating poverty. Most of them have appeared in the top five economic journals.Esther Duflo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019 along with her two co-researchers Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
In 2003, she conducted a trial experiment on teacher absenteeism in 120 schools run by a non-profit group. “In doing so, they provide a proud reminder of MIT’s commitment to bringing knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges.” He added: “We’re deeply proud of our newest Nobel laureates and the entire economics department.”After an extended round of applause from students, faculty, and administrators at the start of the press conference, Banerjee joked, “It feels like I wandered onto the set of the wrong movie.”“Esther and Abhijit have been exceptional colleagues and contributors to the MIT economics department,” said Rose. He earned his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1988.
“In their vision, the materially poor are at the center, as are remedies for global poverty that actually work, that open doors for millions to education, health care, economic well-being, and safe communities — to the full promise of human life.”Duflo received her undergraduate degree from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1994, after studying both history and economics.
When Kremer and economist Edward Miguel demonstrated the immense value of deworming children in the developing world, J-PAL helped start Deworm the World, a nonprofit that has treated millions of children in Africa.At a press conference for Duflo and Banerjee held today in MIT’s Building E51, MIT President L. Rafael Reif introduced the two economists, praising their scholarship and the impact of their work.“By providing an experimental basis for development economics, professors Banerjee and Duflo have reimagined their field and profoundly changed how goverments and agencies around the world intervene to help people beat poverty,” Reif said.
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee speak with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria about their Nobel Prize-winning research aimed at alleviating poverty. Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT economists whose work has helped transform antipoverty research and relief efforts, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with another co-winner, Harvard University economist Michael Kremer. Duflo is the youngest person (at age 46) and the second woman to win this award (after Responding by telephone to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Duflo explained that she received the prize "at an extremely opportune and important time" and hoped that it would "inspire many, many other women to continue working and many other men to give them the respect that they deserve, like every single human being. Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee speak with MIT Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo were honored with the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work fighting poverty, reports John Detrixhe for This website is managed by the MIT News Office, part of the Duflo was born in 1972 in Paris, the daughter of pediatrician Violaine Duflo and mathematics professor Michel Duflo. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo speak with BBC News reporter Soutik Biswas writes about the work of two of the 2019 Nobel laureates in economics, Prof. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who were honored for their efforts to alleviate global poverty. There are now 12 MIT alumni, including Duflo, who have won the Nobel in economics; eight former faculty have also won the award.Profs.