Abhijit Banerjee
| Abhijit Banerjee | |
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Banerjee at the 2011 FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
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| Born |
21 February 1961 Kolkata, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Field | Development economics |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Jawaharlal Nehru University Presidency College, Calcutta |
| Doctoral advisor |
Eric Maskin |
| Doctoral students |
Esther Duflo Dean Karlan |
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali: অভিজিৎ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born 1961) is an Indian economist. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. Banerjee is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (along with economists Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan), a research affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action, and a member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty. Banerjee was a president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, an international research fellow of the Kiel Institute, fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow at the Econometric Society. He also has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. He is the co-author of Poor Economics.
Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India, to Nirmala Banerjee, a professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Dipak Banerjee, a professor and the head of the Department of Economics at Presidency College, Calcutta.
He attended South Point School and Presidency College, Calcutta, where he completed his B.S. degree in economics in 1981. Later, he completed his M.A. in economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in 1983. Later, he went on to obtain a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1988. The subject of his doctoral thesis was "Essays in Information Economics."
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