Esther Duflo is a French economist who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics with Abhijit Banerjee and Micheal Kremer award.
Wiki/Biography
Esther Duflo was born on Wednesday, November 25, 1972, in Paris, France (age 47 years 2019). Her zodiac sign is Scorpio. She attended the Lycée Henri IV in Paris, France. In 1994, she studied for a master’s degree in history and economics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1995, she studied for a master’s degree in economics at DELTA College. In 1999, she received a PhD in economics from MIT.
Esther Duflo as a young girl
Esther’s research fields are social economics and development economics. When she was pursuing her PhD, her doctoral supervisors were Abhijit Banerjee and Joshua Angrist, and her thesis was “A Dissertation in Empirical Development Economics”. Abhijit was a professor at MIT while pursuing his Ph.D.
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee at MIT
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
Eye color: black
Hair color: dark brown
Esther Duflo in a speech
family and husband
Esther Duflo was a French-American economist. Her father, Michel Duflo, was a mathematician. Her mother, Violaine Duflo, is a pediatrician. Her sister Anne Duflo is an economist. In 2015, Esther married Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee. In 2012, they gave birth to a child together.
Esther Duflo’s father, Michel Duflo
Esther Duflo (centre) and her mother Violaine Duflo (left)
Esther Duflo’s sister Anne Duflo
Esther Duflo and her husband Abhijit Banerjee
Profession
In 1993, while Esther was studying for her doctorate, she spent 10 months in Moscow, where she taught French and wrote a historical paper describing “how the Soviet Union used large construction sites such as the Stalingrad Tractor Factory for propaganda , how publicity requirements changed the actual shape of the project.” In 1999, after receiving her Ph.D., she was hired as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2001, she received tenure at MIT. In 2002, he was promoted to associate professor.
Esther Duflo in a speech
Esther is the founding editor of the American economic magazine Applied Economics. In 2011, she wrote the book “The Economics of Poverty”, which received global acclaim. She collaborates with Abhijit Banerjee in the field of development economics, where they work on using field experiments as an important methodology for discovering causal relationships in economics. On October 14, 2019, Esther Duflo and her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer (American economist) passed away due to Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in alleviating global poverty.
Esther Duflo wins Nobel Prize
books written
- Experience, science and the struggle against poverty (2009)
- Human Development – Volume 1 and Volume 12 (2010)
- The Economics of Poverty: A Radical Rethinking of Fighting Global Poverty (2011)
- Field Experiment Handbook – Volume 1 and Volume 12 (2017)
- Good economics in difficult times (2019)
- Good economics in difficult times: Better solutions to our biggest problems (2019)
Awards, Honors and Scholarships
- Best Young Economist in France, Cercle des économistes, 2005
- In May 2008, he was named one of the “Top 100 Intellectuals in the World” by Foreign Policy magazine.
- Received the title of Academician of the MacArthur Foundation in 2009
- 2009 Academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Calvo-Armengor International Prize (announced on May 21, 2009, received on June 4, 2010)
- John Bates Clark Medal, 2010
- Named to Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list in 2010
- On February 2, 2010, he received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven.
- Named one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010
- In 2010, he was named one of the “Top 8 Young Economists in the World” by The Economist magazine.
- In 2011, he was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time Magazine
- Named one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2012
- Won the “French Order of Merit Officer” in 2013
- John von Neumann Prize, Rajk László School of Advanced Studies, 2013
- Infosys Social Sciences Economics Prize, 2014
- Princess of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences, 2015
- A.SK Social Sciences Prize, WZB Center for Social Sciences Berlin, 2015
- 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
Facts/Trivia
- Esther is interested in history and hopes to pursue a career in politics or civil service as an undergraduate.
Esther Duflo as a young girl
- In 2001, at the age of 29, she received tenure at MIT, becoming the youngest person ever to receive tenure.
- He was still married to his first wife Arundhati Tuli Banerjee in 2012 when Esther gave birth to a child with Abhijit Banerjee.
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
- She is the youngest woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Esther Duflo wins Nobel Prize
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