Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, innovative MIT economists whose antipoverty research has given new prominence to the use of field experiments in social science, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics, along with Harvard University economist Michael Kremer. Esther DufloEsther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of 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). 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 ... Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). The Nobel Laureate couple — Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, have an adorable love story. Banerjee and Duflo, who got married in 2015, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 with his better half, also sharing the prize with Michael Kremer. On Valentine’s Day, the Instagram ...
