Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian-American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
15 Facts About Abhijit Banerjee
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Abhijit Banerjee was born to a Bengali family in Mumbai.
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Abhijit Banerjee's father, Dipak Banerjee, was a professor of economics at Presidency College, Calcutta, and his mother Nirmala Banerjee, a professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
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Abhijit Banerjee received his school education in South Point High School in Calcutta.
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Abhijit Banerjee was released on bail and charges were subsequently dropped against the students.
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Abhijit Banerjee is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he has taught at Harvard University and Princeton University.
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Abhijit Banerjee has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P Sloan Fellow.
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Abhijit Banerjee was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.
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Abhijit Banerjee served on the Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2018.
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Abhijit Banerjee is a co-founder of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
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Abhijit Banerjee was married to Dr Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, a lecturer of literature at MIT.
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In 2015, Abhijit Banerjee married his co-researcher, MIT professor Esther Duflo; they have two children.
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Abhijit Banerjee was a joint supervisor of Duflo's PhD in economics at MIT in 1999.
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Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 along with his two co-researchers Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
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Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Doctor of Letters by the University of Calcutta in January 2020.