US-based Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will quickly be becoming a member of the College of Zurich, in Switzerland, the place they plan to ascertain a brand new centre for improvement economics, the college introduced on Friday.
The College of Zurich (UZH) said that the married couple, presently on the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise (MIT), will be part of its economics college beginning July subsequent yr.
The announcement didn’t specify the explanations behind their resolution to depart MIT. Duflo and Banerjee, together with Michael Kremer, had been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for his or her “experimental strategy to assuaging world poverty.”
