Esther Duflo Quotes

Esther Duflo — French Economist born on October 25, 1972,

Esther Duflo is a French economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Duflo is an NBER Research Associate, serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and is Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research's development economics program... (wikipedia)

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.

In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.

Esther Duflo Quotes

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