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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
Website
http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo

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 Cristina Iannelli FBA

Professor Sonia Bhalotra FBA

Sonia Bhalotra focuses on gender, violence, health, mental health, child development, family formation, leadership, social mobility, with a recurring focus on skills, the labour market and on legal, cultural, technological and political institutions.

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Professor Peter Tymms FBA

Educational research and development involving the creation of monitoring systems tracking the affective and cognitive progress of children worldwide; interventions designed to improve attainment and non-cognitive outcomes

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