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… — 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
