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 Martin Cripps FBA
Game theory & its applications to the economics of information, signalling, reputations & experimentation.
Professor Laurence Brockliss FBA
The history of education, science and medicine in Europe 1500-1914; the social history of knowledge creation and diffusion; the history of childhood
Professor Margaret Snowling FBA
Developmental disorders of language, learning and cognition including basic research on dyslexia and language impairment and the development and evaluation of interventions that ameliorate children’s literacy difficulties
