{"id":7700,"date":"2019-06-24T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.alj3.clients.lemonhq.io\/quick-reads\/j-pal-co-founder-esther-duflo-receives-major-honor\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:42:26","slug":"j-pal-co-founder-esther-duflo-receives-major-honor","status":"publish","type":"quickreads","link":"https:\/\/cms.alj3.clients.lemonhq.io\/en\/quick-reads\/j-pal-co-founder-esther-duflo-receives-major-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"J-PAL co-founder Esther Duflo receives major honor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) has been elected to the U.S.-based National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her ground-breaking work to reduce poverty worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her research aims to understand the economic lives of the poor to aid the design and evaluation of social policies.&nbsp; She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment, and governance.&nbsp; With first degrees in history and economics from \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, in Paris; she subsequently received a PhD from MIT and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, the A.SK Social Science Award, the Infosys Prize, the David N. 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