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26.03.2021
Departmental Seminar via Zoom - Mar 29th
Esther DUFLO is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Duflo is the Editor of the American Economic Review, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
In her research, she seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment and governance.
She has received numerous academic honours and prizes including 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (with co-Laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer), the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the A.SK Social Science Award (2015), Infosys Prize (2014), the David N. Kershaw Award (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009). With Abhijit Banerjee, she wrote Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011 and the recently released Good Economics for Hard Times.
Esther DUFLO will explore the impact of communication by trusted figures during the COVID Crisis, using evidence from randomized trials in disadvantaged communities, in India and the US, at the next Departmental Seminar via Zoom on the topic:
Encouraging Social Distancing: Evidence from Several Randomized Controlled Trials
Her talk will be based on two papers:
More about Esther DUFLO and her research
Date: Monday, March 29th - 2:45 PM
Location: Zoom
