Nobel Prize: A. Banerjee, E. Duflo and M. Kremer jointly awarded
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 has just been awarded jointly to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, MIT and Harvard Professors. For The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the research they are conducting have “considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field of research.”
- See the official release on the nobelprize.org website
- Watch the press conference in live stream
PSE is particularly glad for Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who have a tight connection with our institution. Esther Duflo, the youngest economics laureate so far, is an Ecole normale supérieure alumni, who graduated from the APE programme - now run by and at PSE; she has co-founded the J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) in 2003 at the MIT and established its european antenna in 2008 at the Paris School of Economics; E. Duflo is also a teacher at PSE, and has been regularly invited for mid and long term stay here, notably a whole year in 2017-2018 along with A. Banerjee.
Personal pages of the laureates:
- Abhijit Banerjee: https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/banerjee
- Esther Duflo: https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo
- Michael Kremer: https://scholar.harvard.edu/kremer/home
Press contact:
- questions at mit.edu
- Kimberly Allen: allenkc at mit.edu - Téléphone: 617-253-2702 - MIT News Office