Please join us on Monday, November 5th, for an STS Colloquium:
Evidence, Evaluation, and the Fight Against Poverty
Esther Duflo, MIT
4:00 pm, E51-095
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor
of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics
in the Department of Economics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a
co-founder and director of the Abdul Latif Jameel
Poverty Action Lab, Research Associate at the
National Bureau for Economic Research, and on the
board of directors of the Bureau for Research and
Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). She is
the director of the development economics program
at the Center of Economic Policy Research. She
received her undergraduate degree in history and
economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure
(Paris) in 1994, a masters in economics from
DELTA (Paris) in 1995, and her Ph.D. in economics
from MIT in 1999. She is the recipient of the
American Economic Associations Elaine Bennett
Prize for Research (2003), the Bronze Medal from
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(2005) and Le Mondes Cercle des économistes Best
Young French Economist Prize (2005). She
currently serves as the inaugural editor of the
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Duflo specializes in development economics and
the design and rigorous evaluation of effective
anti-poverty policies. Among other things, she
has studied household behavior and educational
choice; and returns to education and social
services deliveries in developing countries
For a schedule of events for the week of November
5th: http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html.
For a complete listing of events on the MIT campus: http://events.mit.edu/
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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