The core of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, Poor Economics, can be summed up by a single sentence in the foreword: “[W]e have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon ...

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta ... He is the author of a large number of articles and three books, including Poor Economics, which won the Goldman Sachs Business ...

This stark contradiction is just one of the many themes explored by economist and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee in his ...

Alatas, Vivi, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, and Matthew Wai-Poi. 2016. "Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia.” Journal of Political ...

Esther Duflo has just become the youngest recipient for the Nobel Prize in Economics ... who was co-awarded the title with her husband Abhijit Banerjee, a fellow Massachusetts Institute of ...

The city celebrated its sixth Nobel Laureate with Abhijit Banerjee being awarded the prestigious award for his contribution to economics. In fact, one of the most prestigious universities of the ...

Abhijit Banerjee is the kind of ... catching him resting on his laurels anytime soon. Banerjee, along with his co-Laureates Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, are seen as the pioneers of experimental ...

Economist Abhijit Banerjee on why he reads ... brought an experimental approach to economics to focus on poverty, and in particular, how the poor make decisions. This approach,while popular ...

Professor Abhijit Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation ...