Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee | |
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অভিজিৎ বিনায়ক ব্যানার্জী | |
![]() Banerjee in November 2011 | |
Born | Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee 21 February 1961 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Citizenship | American |
Spouse |
Arundhati Tuli Banerjee
(div. 2014) |
Children | 3 |
Academic career | |
Field | Development economics |
Institution | |
Alma mater |
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Doctoral advisor | Eric Maskin • Andreu Mas-Colell • Jerry Green |
Doctoral students | Esther Duflo • Dean Karlan • João Leão • Benjamin Jones • Nancy Qian • Maitreesh Ghatak • Asim Ijaz Khwaja |
Contributions | Randomized controlled trials |
Awards |
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Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Academic career | |
Thesis | Essays on Information Economics (1988) |
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 research center promoting the use of scientific evidence to inform poverty alleviation strategies.[5][6] In 2019, Banerjee shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."[1][6] He and Esther Duflo are married, and became the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel or Nobel Memorial Prize.[7]
In addition to his academic appointments, Banerjee is a fellow of the Econometric Society,[4] a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[3] and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] In 1994, he received a Sloan Research Fellowship,[4] awarded annually to early career researchers with the "potential to revolutionize their fields." According to Research Papers in Economics, Banerjee is among the most productive development economists in the world, ranking in the top 75 researchers by total research output.[8]