Esther Duflo
Nobel Prize laureate in Economic Sciences 2019
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Esther Duflo, born on October 25, 1972, in Paris, France, is a French economist known for her work on global poverty. She co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which employs experimental methods to assess the effectiveness of poverty alleviation programs. In 2019, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
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- Who is Esther Duflo?
- Esther Duflo, born on October 25, 1972, in Paris, France, is a French economist known for her work on global poverty. She co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which employs experimental methods to assess the effectiveness of poverty alleviation programs. In 2019, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
- In what year did Esther Duflo win the Nobel Prize?
- 2019 — Economic Sciences