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Esther Duflo

1972 - Today

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Esther Duflo, FBA (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". In addition to her academic appointment, Duflo is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT-based research center promoting the use of randomized controlled trials in policy evaluation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Esther Duflo has received more than 1,752,904 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Esther Duflo is the 249th most popular economist (up from 273rd in 2019), the 3,689th most popular biography from France (up from 3,846th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Economist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

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  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Esther Duflo ranks 249 out of 414. Before her are Abhijit Banerjee, David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Georg Friedrich Knapp, and Theodore Levitt. After her are Robert Barro, Edward Chamberlin, Alexander Gerschenkron, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, Fakhruddin Ahmed, and Greg Mankiw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Esther Duflo ranks 89. Before her are Severina, Gulnara Karimova, Cat Power, Jaromír Jágr, Michael Chang, and Toto Wolff. After her are Alf-Inge Håland, Jonny Lee Miller, Virgilijus Alekna, Amrullah Saleh, Goran Višnjić, and Thandie Newton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Esther Duflo ranks 3,689 out of 6,770. Before her are Albert Aurier (1865), Georges Leygues (1857), Christiane Rochefort (1917), Vincent Candela (1973), Blaise Matuidi (1987), and Boso, Margrave of Tuscany (885). After her are Emmanuel de Martonne (1873), Jean Nicolas (1913), Guy Bourdin (1928), Henri Sauguet (1901), Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin (1860), and Charles Renard (1847).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Esther Duflo ranks 24. Before her are Thomas Piketty (1971), Clément Juglar (1819), Michel Camdessus (1933), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Olivier Blanchard (1948), and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646). After her are Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798), and Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945).

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