Esther Duflo Quotes
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.
- 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…
- The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
- What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
- 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…