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A Q&A With Esther Duflo, Who Wins Nobel Prize Today

Esther Duflo is the first female economist to win the Nobel Prize. Planet Money talks to her about her win, the state of gender inequality in... Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's ...
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Inside the Mind of a Genius: Esther Duflo

Now that you know How to Be a Black Genius, members of the 2009 class of MacArthur fellows give some insight into the way they live and think. 3. What was your favorite song when you were in high ...
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Nobel laureate Esther Duflo proposes taxing 3,000 billionaires to protect the world’s poorest from climate change—and most Americans likely agree with the plan

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 ...
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Nobel Laureates Duflo and Banerjee to join UZH

The University of Zurich welcomes Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, two pioneers in the field of development economics. Both economists are currently employed at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo Banerjee, FBA (born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist who is a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).