[Sci-tech-public] STS Colloquium and Schedule of Events: November 5-9, 2007

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us on Monday, November 5th, for an STS Colloquium:

Evidence, Evaluation, and the Fight Against Poverty
Esther Duflo, MIT
4:00 pm, E51-095

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

For a schedule of events for the week of November 
5th: http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html.

For a complete listing of events on the MIT campus:  http://events.mit.edu/

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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