Esther Duflo and women in economics

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Esther Duflo is the second female economist to win a Nobel prize. She and her husband, Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer - shared this year’s award for economic sciences. To find out more about their work, we speak to Tim Harford - he usually presents this programme but we get to interview him about once a year! Professor Sarah Smith of the University of Bristol joins to discuss the shortage of women in economics. (image: Economist Esther Duflo at the MIT press conference October 14 2019 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Credit: Scott Eisen / Getty Images)