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Esther Duflo

French-American economist (born 1972)born 1972

Supervised 75 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2002 and 2026; doctorate in economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 under Joshua Angrist and Abhijit V. Banerjee; Wikidata names Abhijit Banerjee as doctoral advisor and lists 23 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 11 other registers.

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Theses1

Advisors2

The thesis record names Joshua Angrist and Abhijit V. Banerjee; Wikidata names Abhijit Banerjee.

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    Joshua Angrist“Essays in empirical development economics”

    1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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    Abhijit V. Banerjee“Essays in empirical development economics”

    1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Students75

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata23

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Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 107 people: 81 cited by thesis records, 26 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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Works1

1999 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

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Coauthors in OpenAlex388

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    Abhijit Banerjee

    176 shared works
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    Keesler Welch

    68 shared works
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    Pascaline Dupas Y

    48 shared works
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    Arun Gautham Chandrasekhar

    42 shared works
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    Michael R. Kremer

    41 shared works
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    Rohini Pande

    36 shared works
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    Emily Breza

    36 shared works
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    Benjamin Olken

    32 shared works
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    Harini Kannan

    31 shared works
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    Rachel Glennerster

    28 shared works

OpenAlex lists 378 more people who share a work with them.