Esther Duflo,
an MIT economist and a co-founder of Jameel Poverty Action Lab, is passionate
about eliminating poverty in the developing world. She is best known for her work where she
applies randomized control trials (RCTs) to economic and development
problems. Click here for a crash course
on RCTs. Alternatively, you can watch
the 20-minute video below. Angus
Deaton’s critique of RCTs is available here.