Abhijit Banerjee
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 63 |
Born | Mumbai |
India | |
Nationality | American |
Indian | |
Spouse | Esther Duflo |
Arundhati Tuli Banerjee | |
Job | Professor |
Economist | |
Education | Presidency University |
Jawaharlal Nehru University | |
Harvard University | |
Books | Poor Economics |
Making Aid Work | |
Understanding Poverty | |
Iqtisad al- fuqara' (Poor Economics) | |
Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India | |
Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India | |
Cooking to Save Your Life | |
Awards | Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada | |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | |
Official site | economics.mit.edu |
Date of birth | February 21,1961 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Parents | Nirmala Banerjee |
Dipak Banerjee | |
Children | Kabir Banerjee |
Academic advisor | Eric Maskin |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 542720 |
Abhijit Banerjee Life story
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian-born naturalized American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nobel economics prize awarded to Claudia Goldin for work on gender pay gap
... In 2019 Esther Duflo shared the award with her husband Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer, for work that focused on poor communities in India and Kenya...
A Nobel prize-winning economist's guide to cooking
...Abhijit Banerjee was 15 years old when he first cooked a meal...
Coronavirus: India's PM modi seeks 'forgiveness' is on lockdown
... In an opinion piece published on Sunday, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two of the three winners of the Nobel prize for economic Sciences in the year 2019, said more help for the poor was necessary...
News Daily: Hong Kong stand-off continues, and Attenborough sees plastics change
... But Prof Esther Duflo of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who alongside her MIT colleague and husband Prof Abhijit Banerjee, and Harvard s Prof Michael Kremer, has certainly come off the fence in a new book that hits out at some of economists prized myths...
Why did the economists get things wrong
... The economists say: on the one hand, but on the other side, says Prof Esther Duflo, in the picture with her husband, Abhijit Banerjee Economists had a hard time in recent years, with the Conservative politicians Michael Gove s famous adage that the people distanced during the Brexit campaign, branding them irresponsible and elitist ...
What is it like to work with someone, you are married?
... Then Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel prize for economic Sciences, together with colleagues Michael Kremer...
Nobel economics prize winner hopes to inspire women
... Prof Duflo was part of a trio, alongside her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, to win the prize...