Quotes by Esther Duflo - Page 1

I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Television
Whole
Tv
Life Me Never
Passed
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The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Bored
Poor
Rest
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What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Decent
Disaster
Lacking
Education Health Service
Services
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The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Differences
Income
Poor
Rich
Great World People
Between
Interested
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I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Beach
Economics
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In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
Esther Duflo / Economist
Academic
Advantage
Quota
Always Me Way
Always Me Woman
Committee
Me Always Way
Fill
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In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?
Esther Duflo / Economist
Technology
Tuning
Way
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Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.
Esther Duflo / Economist
War
Active
Mother
Wanted
War World Me
War Always World
Child
Useful
Came
Small
She
Victims
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Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.
Esther Duflo / Economist
India
Our Lives
Upset
Opposite
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For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Higher
Infancy
Millions
Mortality
Adolescent
Bear
Maternal
Likely
Rates
Suffer
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Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Better Off
Giving
Resources
Men Women Better
Additional
Create
Expense
Extent
Women Men Better
Rug
Saying
Sweep
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The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Logic
Social Service
Money Service People
Choice
First Place
No Choice
Provide
Schools
Service
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And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Data
Lines
World
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