"The Poverty Lab"

I was reading "The Poverty Lab" published by The New Yorker, May 17, 2010 about Esther Duflo, "a thirty-seven-year-old professor of development economics" at MIT, and thought that I should share the article with you. I could not get a hold of the article online, however, I have managed to get the video of her talk at Ted (see below). According to the article Ms. Duflo "runs field experiments that measure different ways to save the world." She compares her work to various scientific experiments that take place in the field of medicine everyday. She calls these experiments "a very robust and very simple tool" which help reduce statistical noise and allows us to "connect cause and effect."