Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali: অভিজিৎ বিনায়ক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born February 21, 1961) is an Indian-American economist.[6] Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with his wife Esther Duflo and fellow economist Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."[7][8] He is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| Born | Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee 21 February 1961 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Presidency College, Kolkata University of Calcutta (BA) Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize (2019)[3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Development economics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral students | Esther Duflo[4] Dean Karlan[5] Benjamin Jones |
He along with wife Esther Duflo are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.[9]
References
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- ↑ Hannon, Dominic Chopping and Paul (14 October 2019). "Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded for Work Alleviating Poverty". WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-prize-in-economics-awarded-11571046679?mod=e2tw. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ↑ Duflo, Esther (1999), Essays in empirical development economics. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- ↑ Karlan, Dean S. (2002), Social capital and microfinance. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- ↑ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (October 14, 2019). "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2019". Press release. https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/press-economicsciences2019.pdf.
- ↑ Desk, The Hindu Net (2019-10-14). "Abhijit Banerjee among three to receive Economics Nobel" (in en-IN). The Hindu. . https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/india-origin-abhijit-banerjee-among-three-to-receive-economics-nobel/article29680388.ece. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
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