Esther Duflo is one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics. She and her colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Harvard ...

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 ...

This year’s Nobel prize in Economics was particularly noteworthy for several reasons. For the world as a whole, the fact that one of the winners, Esther Duflo, was only the second woman—and, at 46, by ...

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 ...