Esther Duflo awarded John Bates Clark medal

Esther Duflo has been awarded the John Bates Clark Medal for 2010 by the American Economic Association. The medal is awarded to the American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.

Duflo is Professor of Economics at the Massachusets Institute of Technology. She received her B.A. from the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1994 and her Ph.D. from MIT in 1999. She was appointed as a CEPR Research Affiliate in 2001, and is currently Co-Director of the Centre's Development Economics Programme.