Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
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Born
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

(1961-02-21)21 February 1961(age 60)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
CitizenshipUnited States
Spouse(s)
  • Arundhati Tuli Banerjee (divorced 2014)
  • Esther Duflo
    (m. 2015)
InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Princeton University
FieldDevelopment economics
Social economics
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta (BSc)
Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA)
Harvard University (PhD)
Doctoral
advisor
Eric Maskin
Doctoral
students
Esther Duflo
Dean Karlan
Benjamin Jones
Nancy Qian
ContributionsAbdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2019)
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