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Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian-American economist at MIT who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize for pioneering the use of randomized controlled trials to evaluate anti-poverty interventions in developing countries.
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Abhijit Banerjee ranks #36 of 253 in the Economist ranking, behind Douglass North, ahead of Peter Diamond.
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Why did Abhijit Banerjee receive the 2019 Nobel Prize?
Banerjee shared the 2019 economics prize with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to reducing global poverty. Their work popularized randomized controlled trials that test specific interventions, such as tutoring programs or preventive health incentives, in real communities.
What did Abhijit Banerjee discover about education programs in India?
Banerjee and collaborators studied programs that gave struggling pupils targeted help rather than simply adding standard classroom resources. Evaluations involving the education nonprofit Pratham showed that teaching children at their actual learning level could produce substantial gains.
What is the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab?
Banerjee co-founded J-PAL at MIT with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan in 2003. The research network evaluates anti-poverty policies through randomized studies and promotes the use of evidence in government and nonprofit decisions.
Which Abhijit Banerjee book should a general reader start with?
Poor Economics, written with Esther Duflo and published in 2011, explains what field experiments reveal about the daily decisions of people living in poverty. Good Economics for Hard Times, published in 2019, applies economic research to broader issues such as migration, trade, and inequality.
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