Esther Duflo wins Thomas C. Schelling Award, bestowed annually to an individual whose work has had a transformative impact on public policy

Esther Duflo wins Thomas C. Schelling Award, bestowed annually to an individual whose work has had a transformative impact on public policy

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Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT, will be presented with the Thomas C. Schelling Award, bestowed annually to an individual whose remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy. Past recipients include Judge Richard Posner (2005), Dr. Daniel Kahneman (2006), Professor Jagdish Bhagwati (2007), Professor Howard Raiffa (2008), and Harold Varmus (2009). Each recipient will be awarded a $25,000 prize.
March 23, 2011