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 Cristina Iannelli FBA
Social stratification in education and the labour market, social mobility, youth transitions, cross-country comparison, quantitative analysis of secondary data.
Professor Jenny Cheshire FBA
Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.
