Esther Duflo quotes

Esther Duflo is a French economist, renowned for her pioneering work in development economics and the fight against global poverty. Her research applies experimental methods to understand and improve the effectiveness of social policies. She has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize in Economics. Here are 11 of her quotes:

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. (Esther Duflo)

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

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

Esther Duflo

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.

Esther Duflo

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

Esther Duflo

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.

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And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

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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.

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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!

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I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.

Esther Duflo

What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster. (Esther Duflo)

Esther Duflo

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Occupation: French Economist
Born: October 25, 1972
Quotes count: 11

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