Abhijit Banerjee
- January 6, 2024
- Economist
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Abhijit Banerjee Biography
| Name | Abhijit Banerjee |
| Birthday | Feb 21 |
| Birth Year | 1961 |
| Place Of Birth | Mumbai |
| Home Town | Mumbai |
| Birth Country | India |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
| Spouse | Esther Duflo |
| Children(s) | Kabir Banerjee |
Abhijit Banerjee is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on February 21, 1961 in Mumbai, Mumbai, India. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (pronounced [obʱidʒit banɔrdʒi] born 21 February 1961) is an American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. Along with Esther Duflo, they are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.
In 2013, he was named by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to a panel of experts tasked with updating the Millennium Development Goals after 2015 (their expiration date).
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”.
In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, together with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, for their work alleviating global poverty.
His work focuses on development economics. Together with Esther Duflo he has discussed 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. He was also honored 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). In 2012, he shared the Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention for Business Book with co-author Esther Duflo for their book Poor Economics.
Abhijit Banerjee Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Economist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Abhijit Banerjee is one of the richest Economist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abhijit Banerjee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He received his school education in South Point High School, a renowned educational institution in Calcutta. After his schooling, he took admission at Presidency College, then an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta and now an autonomous university, where he completed his BSc(H) degree in economics in 1981. Later, he completed his M.A. in economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi in 1983. While studying in JNU, he was arrested and imprisoned in Tihar Jail during a protest after students gheraoed the then Vice Chancellor PN Srivastava of the university. He was released on bail and charges were subsequently dropped against the students. Later, he went on to obtain a PhD in Harvard University in 1988. The subject of his doctoral thesis was “Essays in Information Economics.”
Abhijit Banerjee was married to Dr. Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, a lecturer of literature at MIT. Abhijit and Arundhati had one son together and later divorced. His son Kabir Banerjee (born 1991), from his first marriage, died in an accident in 2016. In 2015, Banerjee married his co-researcher, MIT professor Esther Duflo; they have two children. Banerjee was a joint supervisor of Duflo’s PhD in economics at MIT in 1999. Duflo is also a Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT.
In 2014, he received the Bernhard-Harms-Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
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Who is Abhijit Banerjee Dating?
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Facts & Trivia
Abhijit Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Abhijit Banerjee celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.
What is Abhijit Banerjee theory?
According to Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, education, even if it doesn’t raise a person’s income, certainly makes him a different person. Access to education is in a sense a fundamental block of how we conceive of a democratic society. In that sense the economic aspect of education is just one aspect. (
What is Abhijit Banerjee famous for?
Arfa Javaid. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian-American economist. He currently serves at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics. Banerjee along with his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019.
Why did Amartya Sen get a Nobel Prize?
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 was awarded to Amartya Sen “ for his contributions to welfare economics.”
Who won Nobel Prize in Economics from India?
yearnamecountry
1997| Robert C. Merton| U.S.
Myron S. Scholes| U.S.
1998| Amartya Sen**| India
1999| Robert A. Mundell| Canada
Who has won 3 Nobel Prizes?
The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work.