Anders Olofsgård in an interview with Omvärlden
15 October, 2019
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Anders Olofsgård, Associate Professor at SITE, shares his insights and thoughts in an interview with the Swedish news media Omvärlden.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Kremer of Harvard University were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. In the interview with Omvärlden, Anders explains:
I’m not surprised that Kremer, Banerjee and Duflo received this year's Economics Award since they have been the leading scholars in this very influential research area for many years.
Anders Olofsgård
Associate Professor at SITE
Anders also mentions the increasing number of women in the research field:
But I didn’t expect them to get it already, there was a prize awarded to development recently and they are all quite young. It’s great that the prize goes to empirically oriented economic research that focuses on concrete solutions to development challenges, but I don’t see it as some kind of positioning of the Nobel Committee as some have suggested. The committee just focuses on the best contributions to economic research. The fact that a woman receives the prize is a reasonable effect of an increasing number of women in economic research today and it will likely become more common in the future.
Anders Olofsgård
Associate Professor at SITE
Read the full article (in swedish) to learn more at Omvärlden.se.
