Dear NBER Family, Board, and Staff Members -
I hope that you will join me in congratulating Esther Duflo, who was
named today as this year's winner of the American Economic Association's
John Bates Clark medal. The prize citation highlights Esther's work in
development economics. It notes in particular her creative analysis of
a range of questions, including education policy, infrastructure
development, and electoral reform, using both evidence from randomized
field experiments and data from non-experimental settings. Esther is a
faculty member at MIT, one of the directors of the Jameel Poverty Action
Lab at MIT, and a Research Associate in the NBER Aging, Children's, and
Education Programs. She joined the NBER as a Faculty Research Fellow in
1999.
All best wishes.
Jim
family_at_nber.org, nberboard_at_nber.org, cambridgestaff_at_nber.org
Received on Fri Apr 23 2010 - 17:30:07 EDT
