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Esther Duflo

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Also known as Esther Caroline Duflo, Esther C. Duflo, E. C. Duflo, Duflo E. C.

French-American economist (born 1972)

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Esther Duflo was born in 1972. She is a recipient of one Nobel Prize. Her work is recognized in the Nobel Economics collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Macarthur Fellows collection.

She has two children. Her Erdős number is 4.

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Esther Duflo Banerjee, FBA (born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist who is a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which was established in 2003. She shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit…

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2019

    “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Caroline
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Paris
Spouse
Abhijit Banerjee
Occupation
researcher
Position held
chairperson
Educated at
Paris School of Economics
Employer
Collège de France
Languages spoken
English language
Award
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Academic degree
doctorate
Doctoral advisor
Joshua Angrist
Field of work
development economics
Official website
economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/esther-duflo
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Number of children
2
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Esther Duflo
date of birth
1972-10-25
member of
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Erdős number
4
name in native language
Esther Duflo
interested in
economics
birth name
Esther Caroline Duflo
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Esther Caroline Duflo, FBA ( French: [ɛstɛʁ dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) 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 her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".

In addition to her academic appointment, Duflo is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT-based research center promoting the use of randomized controlled trials in policy evaluation. As of 2020, more than 400 million people had been impacted by programs tested by J-PAL affiliated researchers. Since 2024, Duflo has also served as the president of the Paris School of Economics alongside her appointment at MIT. In October 2025, the University of Zurich announced that Duflo and Banerjee would be joining the faculty of the UZH School of Business, Economics, and Informatics in July 2026.

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