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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 is an American economist born on October 25, 1972. She has two children and is affiliated with the United States. Her academic work includes publications such as *Poor Economics*, *Good Economics for Hard Times*, *Using randomization in development economics research*, *Repenser la pauvreté*, and *Expérience, science et lutte contre la pauvreté*. Open Library lists 24 works associated with her name, while Crossref records five.

Duflo has received recognition from the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. She is also noted in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. Her Erdős number is 4.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1972
Works
24

Top works

  • Using randomization in development economics research
  • Poor Economics
  • Good Economics for Hard Times
  • Repenser la pauvreté
  • Expérience, science et lutte contre la pauvreté

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1935-12-23
Active to
1984-08-07
aln-shcountry souldiscofunkr&brhythm & blues

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
412
Total plays
462

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,660x

  2. How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?

    · 2004 · cited 8,504x

  3. Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Nonsquamous Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    · 2015 · cited 7,897x

  4. Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Squamous-Cell Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    · 2015 · cited 7,002x

  5. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    · 2017 · cited 5,582x

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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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Encyclopedic overview

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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