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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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 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.
Telephone interview with Abhijit Banerjee following the announcement of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel on 14 October 2019. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. By his own admission, Abhijit Banerjee is “Not an early morning person.”.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was born in February 1961 in Bombay, India, the son of two economics professors. He attended Kolkata’s renowned South Point High School, and Presidency College, where he gained his BSc in economics in 1981.
