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! — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite.… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health. — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster. — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates,… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
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… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested. — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
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… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
