Esther Duflo, Prize in Economic Sciences 2019: Official interview

Interview with the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences Esther Duflo, 6 December 2019
00:00 How did you become
interested in economics?
02:39 Can you tell us about your
relationship with India?
03:54 What have you learnt
from your travels?
04:24 What can economics
tell us about migration?
06:11 Do you feel that being a woman
has affected your work as a scientist?
08:07 How can we encourage more
women to pursue economics?
09:12 How is your work
tied to climate change?
12:19 What can we do to create
a more sustainable world?
14:12 Can you tell us about your
approach to solving problems?
16:07 What are
your hobbies?
16:37 How is your working relationship
with your co-laureate Michael Kremer?
18:19 What does the
prize mean to you?

[@honeytrionia7299]

An inspiring role model to women in economics 💝

[@ahmadfikrytrg5526]

I dunno, but having a mathematician and doctor as parents usually ends up in remarkable kids in some way ma'am, you're rocks🤩

[@nandanm3826]

Thank you for sharing.

[@heony6004]

Thank you for interview.

[@madhusudanaraonallamothu2792]

Thank you sharing.

[@Oyesanmi10]

very interesting

[@samuelfey4924]

beautiful mind

[@Oyesanmi10]

what's the way forward to encourage women to engage in economic science?

[@ssali3599]

We are all waiting for Piketty to win it for exposing the scourge of particularly US capitalism and plutocracy. Let's see if that ever happens.

[@sanjuktachakraborty3728]

Can you upload the official interview of economics Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee??? Pleasss

[@harshthakur1]

They already did

[@sanjuktachakraborty3728]

@@harshthakur1 I know that

[@ssali3599]

For someone who doesn't mind wearing a highly expensive Kashmiri pashmina shawl when they are surrounded by impoverishment all around, it is nothing sort of criminal unconcern.

[@dutchmangolinde5469]

Is it just me or does she look like a female Joaquin Phoenix