STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into ...

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, who are among the top development economists worldwide, will join the University of Zurich's (UZH) Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics in July 2026. At ...

A Harvard economist and two from MIT have won the Nobel Prize for their breakthrough in improving the lives of the poor. Their novel approach was to apply a method used in medicine to figure out what ...

In yet another win at the institutions this year, Harvard and MIT today are celebrating the news that three of their researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. Abhijit Banerjee and ...

US-based Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will soon be joining the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, where they plan to establish a new centre for development economics, the ...

Nobel Economics Prize winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo say they’re just like any other married couple trying to juggle kids and work. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers ...

Professor Esther Duflo was awoken early Monday morning at her Boston home by a phone call informing her that she had won the Nobel Prize in economics. She was sharing the award with two others, ...

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, will join the University of Zurich in Switzerland starting July next year. The move from the US comes as experts warn that ...

I am in Long Beach, California, at TED, the invitation-only event where technologists and scientists, venture capitalists and investment bankers, artists and designers (as well as a handful of bemused ...