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Esther Duflo is an economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is married to Abhijit Banerjee, another economist and professor at MIT. Duflo and Banerjee have worked together on a number of projects, including their work on poverty alleviation and development economics. Duflo is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, which she shared with Banerjee and Michael Kremer in 2019.