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  2. Oct 15, 2019 · Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was married to Dr Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, a lecturer of literature at MIT. They had a son together, before they divorced.

  3. Oct 19, 2019 · Banerjee, who is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lives in Boston, and he is dealing with fame in his own way. “I am extremely busy all of a sudden,” he told THE WEEK. “I do not know how to manage all this.”

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    Abhijit Banerjee was born on Tuesday, 21 February 1961 (age 58 years; as in 2019) in Kolkata. His zodiac sign is Pisces. He did his schooling from the South Point School in Kolkata. He pursued his B.S. degree in economics from the Presidency College, Calcutta in 1981. He did his M.A. in economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delh...

    Abhijit Banerjee is a Bengali Indian. He comes from a family of economists. His father, Dipak Banerjee, was a professor and the head of the Economics Department at Presidency College, Calcutta. His mother, Nirmala Banerjee, was an economics professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Abhijit Banerjee has been married twice. He...

    When Abhijit completed his PhD, he taught at many prestigious institutions including Harvard University and Princeton University. He then went on to become the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research was mainly focused on development economics. He is best known for his fi...

    In 1983, when Abhijit was in JNU, he, along with other students of JNU, staged a protest outside the residence of the vice-chancellor, PN Srivastava. The police were called, and when the students resisted the police, the students were beaten and taken into custody. Abhijit, along with 400 other students, was sent to Tihar jail. However, they were g...

    Volatility And Growth (2005; Oxford University Press)
    Making Aid Work (2005; MIT Press)
    Understanding Poverty (2006; Oxford University Press)
    Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011; Public Affairs Book Group)
    Handbook of Field Experiments, Volume 1 & 2 (2017; Elsevier)
    A Short History of Poverty Measurements (2019; Juggernaut Books)
    IRIS Scholar, 1993
    Institute for Policy Reform Junior Fellow, 1993
    Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1994-96
    National Science Foundation Grant, 1995-98
    Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1996
    MacArthur Foundation Grant under the Costs of Inequality Project, 1996-2002
    Dessert:Bengali Sandesh adorned with rose petals
    Food:Exotic Lucknow Style Kebabs

    After winning the Nobel Prize, Abhjit’s mother said that he forgot to tell her about his achievement, but she was very proud of him. She also revealed that Abhijit was not only good at academics, b...

  4. May 5, 2020 · Abhijit Banerjee was married to Dr Arundhati Tuli Banerjee who is the lecturer of literature at MIT. The couple had a son Kabir Banerjee who died in an accident in 2016. Kabir was the only son...

    • February 21, 1961, in Bombay, India
    • United States
  5. Abhijit Banerjee. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (born 21 February 1961) [1][2] is an Indian-born American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3][4] He is co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT based global ...

  6. Oct 14, 2019 · Banerjee was married to his childhood friend from Kolkata, Dr Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, a lecturer of literature at MIT. They had one son together before Abhijit and Arundhati divorced.

  7. Oct 14, 2019 · Abhijit Banerjee was married to Dr. Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, a professor at MIT initially and had a son with her, but eventually, the two got divorced. After his divorce, Banerjee moved in with Duflo after their trip to India where they bot lived together for 18 months. The duo even had a child in 2012 and got formally married in 2015.