Esther Duflo is only the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also the youngest person ever to win it. This week, the Swedish Academy announced that Dulfo along with her ...

This is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core Econ together with our listeners. We all need to understand the ...

The Laureates of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2nd L-R) Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee pose after their Nobel Lectures at Stockholms ...

Abhijit V. Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation ...

Esther Duflo is one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics. She and her colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Harvard ...

The University of Zurich welcomes Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, two pioneers in the field of development economics. Both economists are currently employed at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

More than 700 million people across the globe live on extremely low wages. This year, a trio of economists won the Nobel Prize for their work on addressing global poverty, using randomized control ...