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Esther Duflo [1972-0] French

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Economist

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.

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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.	Money	101
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.		102
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!		103
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.		104
Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.		105
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.		106
The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.		107
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.		108
I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.		109
Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.		110
What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.		111

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