Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ( born February 21, 1961 in Bombay, India) is an Indian economist.

Career, teaching and research

Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, which he described as Bachelor of Science in left direction Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1981. In New Delhi, he graduated in 1983 as Master of Arts. He then went to the Ph.D. degree in the United States at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1988.

As an Assistant Professor Banerjee joined right after graduating from Princeton University. Briefly returned in the fall of 1991 as a visiting professor at Harvard, he performed the complete change in the following year. After a year as an assistant professor at Harvard, he moved to MIT, where he accepted a position as Associate Professor. He was appointed a full professor there in 1996. In 2003 he took at MIT the Ford Foundation International Chair in Economics. In the same year he founded with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action the Lab, which he heads as director.

The focus of the work Banerjee is in the field of macroeconomics, information theory and development economics, with its main focus is on research on poverty and income distribution. He has distinguished himself with analyzes of the development aid and social support, in particular to the circumstances in which outreach work. He is an advocate of field experiments for analyzing economic relationships.

Works

The following list are published by Banerjee books again, he has also written numerous journal articles and working papers.

• Volatility and Growth Philippe Aghion with 2005
• Understanding Poverty editor with Roland Benabou and Dilip Mookherjee, 2006
• Making Aid Work, 2007
• Poor Economics with Esther Duflo, 2011