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Please join us on Monday, November 5th, for an STS Colloquium:<br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>Evidence, Evaluation,
and the Fight Against Poverty<br>
</font><font size=4>Esther Duflo, MIT<br>
</font>4:00 pm, E51-095<br><br>
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Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation
and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a co-founder and director
of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Research Associate at the
National Bureau for Economic Research, and on the board of directors of
the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). She
is the director of the development economics program at the Center of
Economic Policy Research. She received her undergraduate degree in
history and economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) in 1994,
a master’s in economics from DELTA (Paris) in 1995, and her Ph.D. in
economics from MIT in 1999. She is the recipient of the American Economic
Association’s Elaine Bennett Prize for Research (2003), the Bronze Medal
from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2005) and Le
Monde’s Cercle des économistes Best Young French Economist Prize (2005).
She currently serves as the inaugural editor of the American Economic
Journal: Applied Economics. Duflo specializes in development economics
and the design and rigorous evaluation of effective anti-poverty
policies. Among other things, she has studied household behavior and
educational choice; and returns to education and social services
deliveries in developing countries <br><br>
For a schedule of events for the week of November 5th:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html" eudora="autourl">
http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html</a>.<br><br>
For a complete listing of events on the MIT campus:
<a href="http://events.mit.edu/" eudora="autourl">
http://events.mit.edu/<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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