Esther Duflo

Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is…

— Esther Duflo

And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be…

— Esther Duflo

In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that…

— 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

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

— Esther Duflo

Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the…

— Esther Duflo

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and…

— Esther Duflo

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take…

— Esther Duflo

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and…

— 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…

— Esther Duflo

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

— Esther Duflo

I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably…

— Esther Duflo

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

— Esther Duflo