Nobel laureate Esther Duflo and illustrator Cheyenne Olivier have collaborated on Poor Economics for Kids, an illustrated children’s version of the classic economics text professor Duflo co-authored ...

Nobel Prize–winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are set to leave the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to join the University of Zurich (UZH) next year. They will reportedly ...

Esther Duflo, one of three people awarded the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday, is a high-profile academic feted in the United States and her home country France for her hands-on approach to studying ...

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 ...

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MIT professor and poverty expert Esther Duflo says the political debate over unemployment benefits and a tight labor market misses the bigger picture of how Covid has changed the world, while also ...

Economists face a reputational problem, and Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo hopes her research in reducing global poverty can rebuild public trust in the profession. Duflo, a professor at the ...

Esther Duflo of France waves after receiving the Princess of Asturias award for Social Sciences from Spain's King Felipe VI at a ceremony in Oviedo, northern Spain. Prof Duflo was awarded the The ...

Subsiding child care will create more jobs that cannot be automated or performed offshore, according to Nobel laureate Esther Duflo. Guaranteed access to good quality child care, no matter where a ...

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Nobel laureate Esther Duflo and Cheyenne Oliver’s book for young readers, Poor Economics for Children, details the struggles of the poor of the Global South through vivid illustrations and ...

The world's rich nations have agreed, several times, that helping poor countries cope with the fallout from climate change is a priority — but so far they've failed to put their money where their ...