Life’s work: An interview with Esther Duflo

MIT economics professor and Nobel laureate Esther Duflo spoke with Harvard Business Review about why she became an economist, how she and her colleagues popularized the use of randomized controlled trials in their field, and more. “I’ve devoted my career to developing the tools and the infrastructure to answer the question of which policies are effective, which are not, which should be scaled up, and which should be scaled down,” she says.