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Abhijit Banerjee
Sign in to saveAlso known as Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Abhijit V. Banerjee, Abhijit Binayak Banerjee, Abhijit B. Banerjee, A. V. Banerjee, A. B. Banerjee, A. Banerjee
Indian American economist
Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian American economist who studies poverty and development. He is notable for his work on understanding the economic challenges facing poor people in developing countries and testing solutions to help them.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2019
“for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Banerjee
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Mumbai
- Spouse
- Esther Duflo
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Eric Maskin
- Field of work
- development economics
- Official website
- economics.mit.edu/faculty/banerjee
- Image
- Abhijit Banerjee at the 2025 Jaipur Literature Festival.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of birth
- 1961-02-21
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Abhijit Banerjee
- name in native language
- Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
- Erdős number
- 3
- curriculum vitae URL
- economics.mit.edu/files/19335
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ( Bengali pronunciation: [oβid͡ʒit bænard͡ʒi]; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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. 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." He and Esther Duflo are married, and became the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel or Nobel Memorial Prize.
In addition to his academic appointments, Banerjee is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1994, he received a Sloan Research Fellowship, 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.
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