Abhijit Banerjee

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Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate
academic
author
development economist
economist
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academicDegree PhD in Economics
alsoKnownAs Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
awardReceived Infosys Prize in Social Sciences (Economics)
John Bates Clark Medal (finalist, not recipient)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
citizenship India
United States of America
coAuthor Esther Duflo
coFounderOf Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
countryOfBirth India
dateOfBirth 1961-02-21
degree BSc in Economics
MA in Economics
doctoralAdvisor Eric Maskin
educatedAt Harvard University
Jawaharlal Nehru University
University of Calcutta
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ethnicGroup Bengali
familyName Banerjee
fieldOfWork development economics
economics
poverty alleviation
givenName Abhijit
knownFor experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
randomized controlled trials in development economics
languageOfWorkOrName Bengali
English
name Abhijit Banerjee
nationality Indian-American
nobelPrizeCategory Economic Sciences
nobelPrizeMotivation for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
nobelPrizeSharedWith Esther Duflo
Michael Kremer
nobelPrizeYear 2019
notableWork Good Economics for Hard Times
Poor Economics
placeOfBirth Mumbai
positionHeld Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT
religion Hinduism
spouse Esther Duflo
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts
workplace Department of Economics, MIT

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