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Esther Duflo's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts

2019 Economic Sciences

Born October 25, 1972

The Community Heart

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In the record

Esther Caroline Duflo, FBA (French: [ɛstɛʁ dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The birth-card coordinate for October 25 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

2019 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

“for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

Shared with Abhijit Banerjee (4♦), Michael Kremer (8♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.

93 other Economic Sciences laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.

The 10 of Hearts coordinate

Esther Duflo's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Esther Duflo. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.

Live 10 of Hearts meaning page

Esther Duflo in the public record

In 2019, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". In addition to her academic appointment, Duflo is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT-based research center promoting the use of randomized controlled trials in policy evaluation. As of 2020, more than 400 million people had been impacted by programs tested by J-PAL affiliated researchers. Since 2024, Duflo has also been the president of the Paris School of Economics alongside her appointment at MIT. In October 2025, the University of Zurich announced that Duflo and Banerjee would be joining the faculty of the UZH School of Business, Economics, and Informatics in July 2026. Duflo is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a board member of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and the director of the development economics program of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Her research focuses on the microeconomics of development and spans topics such as household behavior, education, financial inclusion, political economy, gender, and health. Prior to receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Duflo was awarded the Calvó-Armengol International Prize (2019), the Elaine Bennett Research Prize (2002) and the John Bates Clark Medal (2010) by the American Economic Association.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Esther Duflo (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Esther Duflo, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Cards in Esther Duflo's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

You bring a new angle and stay long enough for someone to test it. You bring new thinking and inspiration. You're the one who shifts how people think about things. You have the gift of the "aha moment."

J♣ — Karma — Displacement, fixed to the 10♥, from the published Jack of Clubs meaning

As of 2020, more than 400 million people had been impacted by programs tested by J-PAL affiliated researchers.

Paired on shared wording: people, tested.

Also on the record

  1. Together with Abhijit Banerjee, Duflo is the co-author of Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times, published in April 2011 and November 2019, respectively.
  2. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Duflo is the seventh most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses.

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FAQ

What is Esther Duflo's birth card?
The 10 of Hearts. October 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
Where do Esther Duflo's dates come from?
Birth date 1972-10-25 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 983) + Wikidata CC0 (Q434509) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Esther Duflo). Birth date 1972-10-25 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).