Esther Duflo: "I could never have won the Nobel Prize except at MIT"

In an interview with Les Echos, Esther Duflo reflects on J-PAL’s creation and the acceleration of its research thanks to the “decisive” support of Community Jameel’s chairman, Mohammed Jameel KBE: “Given the unfashionable nature of my early research, this support represented a real scientific risk [...] and proof of great open-mindedness.”