DR. ESTHER DUFLO
RECIPIENT OF THE 2002 ELAINE BENNETT RESEARCH PRIZE
Dr.
Esther Duflo, the Castle Krob Associate Professor in the Department of Economics
at MIT, is this year's Elaine Bennett Prize winner. Esther Duflo specializes
in development economics, focusing her studies on the broad range of issues
that affect economic and social structures in developing countries. She received
a MA in economics from the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1995 and a Ph.D. from
MIT in 1999. Her research has focused on such issues as household behavior,
educational choice and returns to education, policy evaluation, decentralization,
industrial organization in developing countries and credit constraints. She
continues to explore the many ways that women impact the economies of the
countries in which they live in roles ranging from caretaker to political
leader. Since completing her Ph.D. at MIT in 1999, Dr. Duflo has published
papers in prestigious journals including the American Economic Review, Journal
of Development Economics and Journal of Public Economics, has presented papers
around the world, and in 2002 was promoted to the Castle Krob Associate Professor
position in the Department of Economics at MIT.
The
Elaine Bennett Research Prize was established in 1999 to recognize and honor
outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman at the beginning
of her career. The prize is given in honor of Elaine Bennett, who mentored
many women economists at the start of their careers and made significant contributions
to economic theory and experimental economics during her short professional
career. The previous winners of this
prize are Susan Athey of Stanford University and Judith Chevalier of Yale
University.
CSWEP
represents women's points of views in the committee work of the American Economic
Association (AEA), monitors the progress of women within the profession, and
makes an annual report to the AEA on the status of women in economics. CSWEP
associates are women and men in the diverse areas of the profession - in academe,
government and business.
For further information, please contact: Francine D. Blau, Chair of CSWEP. CSWEP's website is at www.cswep.org.
