The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019
Awarded on: 2019-10-14
"for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
Esther Duflo
Born: 1972-10-25 in Paris, France
Gender: female
Field: French-American economist (born 1972)
Biography
Esther Duflo, FBA is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".