Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist | MIT Professor Transforming Development Economics

🇺🇸Cambridge, United States2 talks2 with video

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Esther Duflo upended traditional economic research by introducing radical empirical approaches to understanding poverty and development. As the youngest woman and second female economist to win the Nobel Prize, she pioneered experimental methods that test real-world solutions to global challenges. Her groundbreaking research at MIT uses randomized controlled trials to measure the actual impact of economic interventions, providing unprecedented insights into how to effectively combat poverty and improve economic systems.

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Social experiments to fight poverty

Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid's impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it's possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt -- by testing solutions with randomized trials.

TED 2010🇺🇸Long BeachFeb 2010
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