Banerjee and Duflo’s announcement follows the departure of Mark Bray, a Rutgers University historian and expert on antifascism who has been subject to death threats and doxing.

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Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo—a married team—will leave their positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the University of Zurich in the next academic year, The Bulwark reported .

The pair, who won the Nobel in 2019 , have not publicly shared why they are leaving MIT at this time, but a source told The Bulwark that they are moving due to the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedom and university research. Reached for comment, Duflo told The Bulwark , “At this moment we are not commenting, especially given that

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