Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2019

Esther Duflo, FBA (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French American Nobel Prize winning economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Duflo is an NBER Research Associate, serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and is Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research's development economics program. Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation. Together with Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Michael Kremer, John A. List, and Sendhil Mullainathan, she has been a driving force in advancing field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics.

Awards

• 2019: Nobel Prize in Economics (along with her two co-researchers Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer).
• 2015: Princess of Asturias Social Sciences award in Spain
• 2014: Infosys Prize in Social Science-Economics.
• 2012: One of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine
• 2012: Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention for Business Book for Poor Economics
• 2011: One of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine
• 2010: John Bates Clark Medal for economists under 40 made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.
• 2010: Calvó-Armengol International Prize
• 2010: One of the top 100 global thinkers by US magazine Foreign Policy
• 2010: One of the top 8 young economists in the world by The Economist
• 2010: Received her 1st honorary doctorate, Université catholique de Louvain
• 2009: MacArthur Foundation Fellow, otherwise known as a "genius" grant
• 2009: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2008: One of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by US magazine Foreign Policy
• 2005: Best Young French Economist prize by Le Monde, Cercle des économistes
• 2002: Elaine Bennett Research Prize to a female economist under 40 who has made outstanding contributions in any field of economic research by the American Economic Association