Esther Duflo

Latest Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

All Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); The World Bank; London School of Economics; MIT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; NA; Harvard University; University of Chicago; CEPR; MIT Economics Department; NBER; Tufts University; Institute for Financial Management and Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research; JPAL; Columbia University; Ecole Normale Superieure; Indian Institute of Technology Madras; INRA; Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES); JPAL South Asia; University of Warwick; University of California, Santa Cruz; World Bank; Northwestern University


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Based on the Following Papers:

Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: The Influence of Colleagues' Choices

Year: 2000
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; Emmanuel Saez

Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Indiawide Randomized Policy Experiment

Year: 2001
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Raghabendra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo

The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Year: 2002
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; Emmanuel Saez

The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion: Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia

Year: 2002
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo

How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?

Year: 2002
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Marianne Bertrand; Esther Duflo; Sendhil Mullainathan

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts, and Consumption Choices

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Christopher Udry

The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter Less than Mothers?

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Lucia Breierova; Esther Duflo

Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo

Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Rema Hanna

Saving Incentives for Low and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; William Gale; Jeffrey Liebman; Peter Orszag; Emmanuel Saez

Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Rema Hanna

Saving Incentives for Low and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; William Gale; Jeffrey Liebman; Peter Orszag; Emmanuel Saez

Dams

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; Rohini Pande

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Shawn Cole; Esther Duflo; Leigh Linden

Dams

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; Rohini Pande

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Year: 2006
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Shawn Cole; Esther Duflo; Leigh Linden

The Economic Lives of the Poor

Year: 2006
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo

Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit V. Banerjee; Esther Duflo

What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo

Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

Year: 2007
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Gilles Postel-Vinay; Timothy M. Watts

Long Run Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Gilles Postel-Vinay; Tim Watts

Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Rachel Glennerster; Michael Kremer

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

Year: 2008
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Lori A. Beaman; Raghabendra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo; Rohini Pande; Petia Topalova

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Rukmini Banerji; Esther Duflo; Rachel Glennerster; Stuti Khemani

Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Rema Hanna; Stephen Ryan

Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Michael Kremer

The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

Year: 2008
Journal: Annual Review of Economics
Authors: Abhijit V. Banerjee; Esther Duflo

Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Michael Kremer

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Rukmini Banerji; Esther Duflo; Rachel Glennerster; Stuti Khemani

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

Year: 2008
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Lori Beaman; Raghabendra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo; Rohini Pande; Petia Topalova

The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

Year: 2008
Journal: Annual Review of Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo

Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Maitreesh Ghatak; Jeanne LaFortune

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Esther Duflo; Michael Kremer; Jonathan Robinson

Nudging Farmers to Utilize Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Michael Kremer; Jonathan Robinson

Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Maitreesh Ghatak; Jeanne Lafortune

Giving Credit Where It Is Due

Year: 2010
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Year: 2011
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Florencia Devoto; Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; William Pariente; Vincent Pons

Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Esther Duflo

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Year: 2011
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Florencia Devoto; Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; William Parient; Vincent Pons

On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Nancy Qian

Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Esther Duflo

On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Nancy Qian

Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Year: 2012
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Bruno Crépon; Esther Duflo; Marc Gurgand; Roland Rathelot; Philippe Zamora

Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Year: 2012
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Bruno Crépon; Esther Duflo; Marc Gurgand; Roland Rathelot; Philippe Zamora

The Diffusion of Microfinance

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Esther Duflo; Matthew O. Jackson

The Diffusion of Microfinance

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G Chandrasekhar; Esther Duflo; Matthew O Jackson

Improving Police Performance in Rajasthan, India: Experimental Evidence on Incentives, Managerial Autonomy, and Training

Year: 2012
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Raghabendra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo; Daniel Keniston; Nina Singh

School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Michael Kremer

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

Year: 2012
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Rema Hanna; Esther Duflo; Michael Greenstone

Can Institutions Be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Raghavendra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo; Daniel Keniston; Nina Singh

Truthtelling by Third-Party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India

Year: 2013
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; Michael Greenstone; Rohini Pande; Nicholas Ryan

The Miracle of Microfinance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

Year: 2013
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Esther Duflo; Abhijit Banerjee; Rachel Glennerster; Cynthia G. Kinnan

Turning a Shove into a Nudge: A Labeled Cash Transfer for Education

Year: 2013
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Nagy Benhassine; Florencia Devoto; Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Victor Pouliquen

The Miracle of Microfinance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Rachel Glennerster; Cynthia Kinnan

Under the Thumb of History: Political Institutions and the Scope for Action

Year: 2014
Journal: Annual Review of Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo

Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Esther Duflo; Matthew O. Jackson

Under the Thumb of History: Political Institutions and the Scope for Action

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo

How Much Do Existing Borrowers Value Microfinance? Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance

Year: 2014
Journal: Economica
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Richard Hornbeck

Measured Profit is Not Welfare: Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Richard Hornbeck

Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Esther Duflo; Matthew O. Jackson

Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco

Year: 2014
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Bruno Crepon; Florencia Devoto; Esther Duflo; William Pariente

The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India

Year: 2014
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Esther Duflo; Michael Greenstone; Rohini Pande; Nicholas Ryan

Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Year: 2014
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Michael Kremer

Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Bruno Crepon; Florencia Devoto; Esther Duflo; William Parient

Movies, Margins, and Marketing: Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt

Year: 2015
Journal: Margin
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Sharon Barnhardt; Esther Duflo

Education, HIV and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Michael Kremer

Toilets Can Work: Short and Medium Run Health Impacts of Addressing Complementarities and Externalities in Water and Sanitation

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Michael Greenstone; Raymond Guiteras; Thomas Clasen

Field Experiments on Discrimination

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Marianne Bertrand; Esther Duflo

From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions with an Application

Year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Rukmini Banerji; James Berry; Esther Duflo; Harini Kannan; Shobhini Mukherji; Marc Shotland; Michael Walton

Field Experiments on Discrimination

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Marianne Bertrand; Esther Duflo

Can Iron-Fortified Salt Control Anemia? Evidence from Two Experiments in Rural Bihar

Year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Sharon Barnhardt; Esther Duflo

Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of Teaching at the Right Level in India

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Rukmini Banerji; James Berry; Esther Duflo; Harini Kannan; Shobhini Mukherji; Marc Shotland; Michael Walton

E-Governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India

Year: 2016
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Clement Imbert; Santhosh Mathew; Rohini Pande

Double Debiased Machine Learning for Treatment and Structural Parameters

Year: 2017
Journal: Econometrics Journal
Authors: Victor Chernozhukov; Denis Chetverikov; Mert Demirer; Esther Duflo; Christian Hansen; Whitney Newey; James Robins

The Economist as Plumber

Year: 2017
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Esther Duflo

Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments with an Application to Immunization in India

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Victor Chernozhukov; Mert Demirer; Esther Duflo; Iván Fernández-Val

The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources: Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Daniel Keniston; Nina Singh

Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Emily Breza; Esther Duflo; Cynthia Kinnan

The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources: Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Abhijit Banerjee; Daniel Keniston

In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for RCTs in Economics

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Amy Finkelstein; Lawrence F. Katz; Benjamin A. Olken; Anja Sautmann

Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Marcella Alsan; Emily Breza; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Abhijit Chowdhury; Esther Duflo; Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham; Benjamin A. Olken

Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program

Year: 2020
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Garima Sharma

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

Year: 2021
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Emily Breza; Arun G Chandrasekhar; Esther Duflo; Matthew O Jackson; Cynthia Kinnan

Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Suresh Dalpath; Esther Duflo; John Floretta; Matthew O. Jackson; Harini Kannan; Francine N. Loza; Anirudh Sankar; Anna Schrimpf; Maheshwor Shrestha

The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Michael Kremer

Doctors and Nurses Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Emily Breza; Fatima Cody Stanford; Marcella Alsan; Burak Alsan; Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Sarah Eichmeyer; Traci Glushko; Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham; Kelly Holland; Emily Hoppe; Mohit Karnani; Sarah Liegl; Tristan Loisel; Lucy Ogbunwobodo; Benjamin A. Olken; Carlos Torres; Pierreluc Vautrey; Erica Warner; Susan Wootton; Esther Duflo

Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Abhijit Banerjee; John Floretta; Anna Schrimpf; Anirudh Sankar; Francine Loza; Harini Kannan; Matthew O. Jackson; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Maheshwor Shrestha; Suresh Dalpath

Depression and Loneliness Among the Elderly Poor

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Erin Grela; Madeline McKelway; Frank Schilbach; Garima Sharma; Girija Vaidyanathan

Blue Spoons: Sparking Communication about Appropriate Technology Use

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Esther Duflo; Michael Kremer; Joo F. Pugliese; Jonathan Robinson; Frank Schilbach

The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Lisa Y. Ho; Emily Breza; Marcella Alsan; Abhijit Banerjee; Arun G. Chandrasekhar; Fatima Cody Stanford; Renato Fior; Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham; Kelly Holland; Emily Hoppe; Louis-Mal Jean; Lucy Ogbunwobodo; Benjamin A. Olken; Carlos Torres; Pierre-Luc Vautrey; Erica Warner; Esther Duflo

Chat over Coffee: Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Daniel Keniston; Tavneet Suri; Cline Zipfel

Chat over Coffee: Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Esther Duflo; Daniel Keniston; Tavneet Suri; Cline Zipfel


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