About the Authors

Abhijit V. Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top one hundred global thinkers. Banerjee served on the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. He has received numerous honors and awards including the inaugural Infosys Prize. Poor Economics, his previous book with Esther Duflo, won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award and was translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

L. Barry Hetherington

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 and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes, including the John Bates Clark Medal for best American economist under forty and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. In 2011 she was part of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.