Spotlight: Duflo and Banerjee win Nobel

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Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee win the 2019 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. Watch the press conference from earlier today.

Professors Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, co-directors of MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. They share in the prize “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” Learn more Full story on MIT News