Abhijit Banerjee
Indian American economist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 February 21, 1961 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Presidency College, Kolkata University of Calcutta (BA) Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Spouse(s) | Arundhati Tuli (divorced) |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize (2019)[3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Development economics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Maskin |
| 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]
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