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Nobel economics prize winner: I want to inspire women

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer win Nobel prize for economics for work that has "dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice".

3 share Nobel Prize in economics for ‘experimental approach’ to solving poverty

J-PAL co-founder Esther Duflo, who at 46 is the award’s youngest winner, shares the honor with fellow J-PAL co-founder and MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee and J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer of Harvard.