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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.
Abhijit Banerjee was married to Dr. Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, a lecturer of literature at MIT. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Abhijit and Arundhati had one son together and later divorced. [ 30 ] Their son, born in 1991, died in an accident in 2016.
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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, 1993Institute for Policy Reform Junior Fellow, 1993Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1994-96National Science Foundation Grant, 1995-98Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1996MacArthur Foundation Grant under the Costs of Inequality Project, 1996-2002Dessert:Bengali Sandesh adorned with rose petalsFood:Exotic Lucknow Style KebabsAfter 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...
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.
Oct 19, 2019 · While at MIT he married Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, whom he had met at South Point School in Kolkata. The marriage did not last long. Their son, Kabir, died in 2016.
Abhijit Banerjee's first marriage was to Dr. Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, a lecturer of literature at MIT, with whom he shares a son. However, they are now divorced. Since 2015, he is married to Esther Duflo, who is his co-researcher and a Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT.
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