Banerjee at the 2011 FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award |
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| Born | February 1961 (age 51) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Field | Development economics |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Jawaharlal Nehru University Presidency College, Calcutta |
| Influenced | Esther Duflo |
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (born 1961) is an Indian economist. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] Banerjee is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (along with economists Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan) and a Research Affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action, a New Haven, Connecticut based research outfit dedicated to creating and evaluating solutions to social and international development problems, and a Member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty. He is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences (Economics).[2]
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Abhijit Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India to Dipak Banerjee, Professor and Head of Department of Economics, Presidency College, Calcutta and Nirmala Banerjee, Professor of Economics, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
He attended South Point School and Presidency College, Calcutta, where he completed his B.Sc degree in Economics in 1981. Later, he completed his M.A. in Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1983. Later he went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1988. The subject of his doctoral thesis is "Essays in Information Economics".
Abhijit Banerjee is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining MIT, he taught at Harvard and Princeton.
His work focuses on development economics. Together with Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, John List and Sendhil Mullainathan, he has proposed field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.[3] He was also honored with the Infosys Prize 2009 in the Social Sciences category of Economics.
The Miracle of Micro nance? Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation June 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia May 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Vivi Alatas, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken and Julia Tobias
The Shape of Temptation: Impications for the Economic Lives of the Poor April 2010 Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan
Giving Credit Where it is Due March 2010 Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Improving Health Care Delivery in India November 2009 Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Marry for What? Caste and Selection in Modern India 2009 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune
The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan May 2009
Parochial Politics: Ethnic Perferences and Politician Corruption Abhijit Banerjee and Rohini Pande 2009
Corruption Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan February 2009
Why Does Missallocation Persist? Abhijit Banerjee and Benjamin Moll February 2009
A Capitalist Knows Who To Call A. Banerjee 2008, M. Kinsley, Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Other Economic Leaders, pp.161-165.
Why fighting poverty is hard September 2008 Abhijit Banerjee
Big Answers for Big Questions: The Presumption of Growth Policy Abhijit Banerjee September 2008
The Experimental Approach to Development Economics Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo September 2008
Pitfalls of Participatory Programs:Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani August 2008
Mandated Empowerment: Handing Antipoverty Policy Back to the Poor? Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo June 2008
Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa Abhijit Banerjee, Sebastian Galiani, Jim Levinsohn, Zoe McLaren and Ingrid Woolard June 2008
Making Aid Work Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He May 2008
Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Creit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo May 2008
Improving Immunization Coverage in Rural India: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Evaluation of Immunization Campaigns with and without Incentives May 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Dhruva Kothari
Limited Attention and Income Distribution Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainthan January 2008
Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo December 2007
What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World? Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo December 2007
Public Action for Public Goods A. Banerjee, L. Iyer and R. Somanathan September 2006, Handbook of Development Economics, Vo. 4
The Economic Lives of the Poor A. Banerjee and E. Duflo April 2006, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vo. 21(1), pp. 141-167
Updated Table (March 17, 2008) for Economic Lives of the Poor and What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World? with Esther Duflo
Comment on Buiter-Patel April 2006, India Policy Forum, Vo. 2
The Paradox of Indian Growth: A comment on Kochar et al. A. Banerjee July 2006, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vo. 53(5), pp. 1021-1026
The Political Economy of Public Goods: Some Evidence from India A. Banerjee and R. Somanathan April 2006
Growth Theory through the Lens of Development Economics A. Banerjee and E. Duflo December 2005, Published: Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 1a. Amserdam: Elsevier, pp. 473-552
Remedying Education Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India A. Banerjee, S. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden December 2005, NBER Working paper 11904 Addressing Absence A. Banerjee and E. Duflo May 2005, Published: Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vo. 20 (1), pp. 117-132
Bank Financing in India A. Banerjee, S. Cole and E. Duflo 2005, India’s and China’s Recent Experience with Reform and Growth, Wanda Tseng and David Cowen, eds.
Bank Financing in India A. Banerjee, S. Cole and E. Duflo 2005, India’s and China’s Recent Experience with Reform and Growth, Wanda Tseng and David Cowen, eds.
Inequality and Investment A. Banerjee December 2004
Notes Toward a Theory of Industrialization in the Developing World A. Banerjee October 2004, Marjit, S. and N. Banerjee (Eds.) Development, Displacement and Disparity: India in the Last Quarter of the Century, pp. 139-159
History, Social Divisions and Public Goods in Rural India A. Banerjee, L. Iyer and R. Somanathan 2004
History, Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India A. Banerjee and L. Iyer October 2004
What do banks (not) do A. Banerjee and E. Duflo September 2004
Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program A. Banerjee and E. Duflo August 2004
Banking Reform in India A. Banerjee, S. Cole and E. Duflo June 2004
Bank Financing in India A. Banerjee, S. Cole and E. Duflo October 2003
Top Indian Incomes, 1956-2000 A. Banerjee and T. Piketty June 2003
Strategy For Economics Reform in West Bengal A. Banerjee, P. Bardhan, K. Basu, M. Ghatak and et al. October 2002, Economic and Political Weekly of India, Oct. 12, 2002
The Uses of Economic Theory: Against a Purely Positive Interpretation of Theoretical Results A. Banerjee May 2002 A Corporate Balance-Sheet Approach to Currency Crises P. Aghion, P. Bacchetta and A. Banerjee November 2001
Caste, Community and Collective Action: The Political Economy of Public Good Provision in India A. Banerjee and R. Somanathan September 2001
Herd Behavior and the Reward for Originality A. Banerjee Unpublished Mimeo, May 1989
On Frequent Flyer Programs and other Loyalty-Inducing Economic Arrangements A. Banerjee and L. Summers Harvard University Discussion Paper, 1337, September, 1987