Esther Duflo#
Photo: Bryce Vickmark
| Membership Number: | 7357 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/esther-duflo |
| X: | @jpal |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/JPAL.Global/ |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yhDMl8AAAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT
- 2003 - present Founding Director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), MIT
- 2024 - present President of the Board, Paris School of Economics
- 2022 - present Chaire, Pauvreté et politiques publiques, College de France
- 2011 - 2012 Member, President’s Global Development Council, U.S. Government
- 2002 - 2004 Castle Krob Career Development Associate Professor of Economics, MIT
- 1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT
Fields of Scholarship
- Household behavior
- Methodology of economics
- Political economy
- Economics of health
- Poverty
- Microeconomics of development
- Economics of gender
- Human capital
- Economics of education
- Financial inclusion
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Nobel Prize in Economics)
- 2021 Member, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
- 2017 Corresponding Fellow, British Academy
- 2015 Member, American Philosophical Society
- 2013 Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor, France)
- 2012 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2009 John Bates Clark Medal, American Economic Association
- 2008 Member, National Academy of Sciences
- 2005 MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant")
