Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee Biography

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian-American economist from West Bengal, India and is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Born: 21 February 1961 (age 58 years), Mumbai

Spouse: Esther Duflo (m. 2015)

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, MORE

Education: Harvard University (1988), South Point School, Presidency University,

Education

Banerjee contemplated financial matters at the University of Calcutta (B.Sc. 1981), Jawaharlal Nehru University (M.A. 1983), and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1988). He showed financial matters at Princeton University from 1988 to 1992, at Harvard in 1991 and 1992–93, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1993. At MIT he was in the end (2003) named Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics. In 2003 he and Duflo, alongside Sendhil Mullainathan, a financial specialist at MIT, established the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an exploration focus supporting logically educated approach making to lessen worldwide neediness. Banerjee and Duflo were hitched in 2015.

Career

He is currently a professor of economics at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He along with his wife and colleague has advocated field experiments as an important method of discovering causal relationships in economics. For his achievements and experiments, he has been felicitated with various honours. He co-authored a book titled Poor Economics along with his wife Esther Duflo in the year 2012 and for this book they won the Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention. In 2019, he along with his wife and economist Michael Kremer won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work alleviating global poverty.

Abhijit Banerjee Family, Relatives and Other Relations

He was born to Dipak and Nirmala Banerjee. He was previously married to Arundhati Tuli and together the couple had a son. Since 2015, he is married to economist Esther Duflo and together the couple has 2 children.

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Shocking / Interesting Facts & Secrets About Abhijit Banerjee

• Both his parents were professor.
• In 2013, he was named by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to a board of specialists entrusted with refreshing the Millennium Development Goals after 2015.
• He and his significant other turned into the sixth wedded couple to together win a Nobel prize.
• His latest book “Great Economics in Hard Times” which he wrote alongside his better half was discharged in October 2019..

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