Esther Duflo is a French–American economist and academic, best known for winning the Nobel Prize for economics, along with her co-researchers, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer. Esther was born in Paris. After studying history and economics at the École Normale Supérieure, she completed her master’s degree from DELTA and her PhD from MIT. Abhijit was her joint thesis supervisor at MIT, and the two fell in love and got married in 2015. Esther and Abhijit continued their research on economics together and co-wrote the books Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times. The duo, along with Michael Kremer, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2019, for their revolutionary work on alleviating poverty through field experiments. Both Esther and Abhijit teach at MIT. The couple stays in Boston with their two children.
