Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee

Banerjee at the 2011 FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
Born February 1961 (age 55)
Kolkata, India
Nationality Indian
Institution Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field Development economics
Alma mater Harvard University
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Presidency College, Calcutta
Influences Esther Duflo
Influenced Esther Duflo

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali: অভিজিৎ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; 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), a research affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action, and a member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty. Banerjee is a past 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, 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. Together with Esther Duflo, he is the co-author of Poor Economics.

Early life

Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India to Nirmala Banerjee, professor of economics, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and Dipak Banerjee, professor and head of department of economics, 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, 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".

Career

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.[2] He also was honoured with the Infosys Prize 2009 in the social sciences category of economics. He is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of social sciences (economics).[3]

In 2013, he was named by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, to a panel of experts tasked with updating the Millennium Development Goals after 2015 (their expiration date).[4]

Publications

Books

Papers, other publications and unpublished works

Since 2010

June 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan

May 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Vivi Alatas, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken, and Julia Tobias

April 2010 Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan

March 2010 Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

2000 to 2009

November 2009 Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

2009 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak, and Jeanne Lafortune

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan May 2009

Abhijit Banerjee and Rohini Pande 2009

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, and Sendhil Mullainathan February 2009

Abhijit Banerjee and Benjamin Moll February 2009

A. Banerjee 2008, M. Kinsley, Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Other Economic Leaders, pp. 161–165.

September 2008 Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee September 2008

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo September 2008

Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani August 2008

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo June 2008

Abhijit Banerjee, Sebastian Galiani, Jim Levinsohn, Zoe McLaren, and Ingrid Woolard June 2008

Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He May 2008

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo May 2008

May 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Dhruva Kothari

Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainthan January 2008

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo December 2007

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo December 2007

A. Banerjee, L. Iyer, and R. Somanathan September 2006, Handbook of Development Economics, Vo. 4

A. Banerjee and E. Duflo April 2006, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vo. 21(1), pp. 141–167

with Esther Duflo

April 2006, India Policy Forum, Vo. 2

A. Banerjee July 2006, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vo. 53(5), pp. 1021–1026

A. Banerjee and R. Somanathan April 2006

A. Banerjee and E. Duflo December 2005, Published: Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 1a. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 473–552

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

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.

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.

A. Banerjee December 2004

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

A. Banerjee, L. Iyer, and R. Somanathan 2004

A. Banerjee and L. Iyer October 2004

A. Banerjee and E. Duflo September 2004

A. Banerjee and E. Duflo August 2004

A. Banerjee, S. Cole, and E. Duflo June 2004

A. Banerjee, S. Cole, and E. Duflo October 2003

A. Banerjee and T. Piketty June 2003

A. Banerjee, P. Bardhan, K. Basu, M. Ghatak, et al. October 2002, Economic and Political Weekly of India, 12 October 2002

A. Banerjee May 2002 A Corporate Balance-Sheet Approach to Currency Crises P. Aghion, P. Bacchetta, and A. Banerjee November 2001

A. Banerjee and R. Somanathan September 2001

Before 2000

A. Banerjee Unpublished Mimeo, May 1989

A. Banerjee and L. Summers Harvard University Discussion Paper, 1337, September 1987

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