Abhijit Banerjee

About Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee, born February 21, 1961, is an Indian-American economist who, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, was awarded the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. As the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, he co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and has pioneered the use of randomized controlled trials in development economics.

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