Esther Duflo Quotes

Richer people tend to be happier than poor people, and people in poor countries tend to be less happy than people in rich countries.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.

I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

Where else can a guy like me make it? Blind and poor---only in America.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.