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 Vernon Henderson FBA
The economics of urbanisation, including the evolutions of city systems and the built environment within cities, as related to institutional structures, with a current focus on China and sub-Saharan Africa
Professor Roger Koenker FBA
Since 2014 Roger Koenker's research has focused primarily on empirical Bayes methods for studying heterogeneity and inequality in economics and related fields.
