Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer

In 2019, University of Chicago economist Michael Kremer won a Nobel Prize for his work studying ways to alleviate global poverty. A pioneer in the use of randomized control trials in economics, Kremer has examined poverty interventions like scientists do medical treatments—putting interventions through a trial to isolate effects. His studies often reveal surprising and counterintuitive ways of fighting global poverty and have radically altered thousands of lives.