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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-born American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Abhijit Banerjee. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019. Born: 21 February 1961, Mumbai, India. Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” Prize share: 1/3.
Contact Information. View & Download CV. Office Phone 617-253-8855. Email Address banerjee@mit.edu. Office E52-540. Assistant Name Kiri Gurd. Assistant Phone 617-324-5085. Affiliations Co-Founder & Director, J-PAL Co-Chair, Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel.
Mar 20, 2024 · An expert on poverty issues, the Indian-born U.S. economist discusses the results of an experiment in Kenya that allocated money to people and measured their degree of entrepreneurship. The Nobel...
Biographical. An accidental economist: a brief history. A series of accidents, mostly fortunate, made me the human being and economist that I am. It started with the accident of my birth, to a couple who were both economists.
Oct 14, 2019 · Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, innovative MIT economists whose antipoverty research has given new prominence to the use of field experiments in social science, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics, along with Harvard University economist Michael Kremer.
Abhijit Banerjee: I think the question of climate changes is central to the challenges that the poor will face in the next fifty years. Being from Kolkata, I always think of what’s going to happen in the southern Bengal delta which stretches across India and Bangladesh.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan, and he remains one of the Lab’s Directors.
Oct 14, 2019 · Indian-American Economist Abhijit Banerjee was among the three recipients of the prestigious 2019 Nobel prize for Economics announced Monday. Banerjee shares the prize with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Harvard University. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT.
