Professor Esther Duflo FBA
The economic lives of households in poor countries: how they make decisions, what constraints they face, and how this should influence the design of policy; and the at-scale evaluation of such policies, mainly using randomized field experiments
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- Economics
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History , Education
Current post
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Elaine Unterhalter FBA
Education, gender and international development; comparative work on education systems, policies, and practices with reviews of debates concerning inequalities, equality, the capability approach and human development
Professor David James FBA
The sociology of education and social inequalities; policy, governance, teaching, learning, assessment, lifelong learning and the education-work relationship.
