Health Care: Duflo and Elinor Ostrom

health care: The 46-year-old Duflo is the youngest person ever to win the prize and only the second woman, after Elinor Ostrom in 2009. ; The three winners, who have worked together, revolutionized developmental economics by pioneering field experiments that generate practical insights into how poor people respond to education, health care and other programs meant to lift them out of poverty, according to The Japan Times. Without spending some time understanding the intricacies of the lives of the poor and why they make the choices they make it is impossible to design the right approach, Duflo told a news conference held by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awarded the prize. The award went to MIT's Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and Harvard's Michael Kremer. Their work in rural Kenya and in India, for instance, found that providing more textbooks, school meals and teachers didn't do much to help students learn more. The winners' recommended program of remedial tutoring is now benefiting 5 million Indian children, the academy said. Making the schoolwork more relevant to students, working closely with the neediest students and holding teachers accountable by putting them on short-term contracts, for example were more effective in countries where teachers often don't bother showing up for work. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.