Esther Duflo • Dean Karlan • João Leão • Benjamin Jones • Nancy Qian • Maitreesh Ghatak • Asim Ijaz Khwaja
Contributions
Randomized controlled trials
Awards
Sloan Research Fellowship (1994)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2000)
Infosys Prize (2009)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2019)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
Thesis
Essays on Information Economics (1988)
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (pronounced[obʱidʒitbɛnardʒi]; 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]
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