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Esther Duflo

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Esther Duflo, FBA (French: [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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Esther Duflo is the 258th most popular economist (down from 249th in 2019), the 3,900th most popular biography from France (down from 3,689th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Esther Duflo ranks 258 out of 414. Before her are Edward Chamberlin, Evsei Liberman, Leo Huberman, Eugen Slutsky, Jules Dupuit, and Eugen Varga. After her are Yulia Navalnaya, David Card, Jörg Meuthen, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Roy Harrod, and Joshua Angrist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Esther Duflo ranks 124. Before her are Ari Behn, Virgilijus Alekna, Trine Dyrholm, Eli Roth, Brian Molko, and Yuji Nakayoshi. After her are Gulnara Karimova, Matt Schulze, Christophe Dugarry, Mohammad Rasoulof, Eric Dane, and Kevin MacLeod.

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In France

Among people born in France, Esther Duflo ranks 3,900 out of 6,770. Before her are Jérémy Mathieu (1983), Henri Jobier (1879), Maurice Scève (1501), Pierre André de Suffren (1729), Jean Mouton (1459), and Jeanne Jugan (1792). After her are Ernest Lavisse (1842), Daniel Duval (1944), Marcel Cachin (1869), Eddy Mitchell (1942), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), and Georges Mouton (1770).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Esther Duflo ranks 24. Before her are Clément Juglar (1819), Pierre Leroux (1797), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Olivier Blanchard (1948), and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646). After her are Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798), and Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945).

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