Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and the 2019 Nobel laureate in economic ...

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 ...

While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

Abhijit Banerjee is the kind of economist who refuses to glorify his profession, even though he’s partially responsible for a massive shift in how economists approach and use data, has published ...

A recent study by prominent authors including Nobel laureates shows that Indian children working in markets excel in mental ...

Abhijit Banerjee, who heads West Bengal's Global Advisory ... Banerjee, currently a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said he does not think that India's economic stimulus ...

The research led by Nobel laureate economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo has challenged the assumption in learning psychology that arithmetic skills can transfer naturally between practical and ...

Economist Abhijit Banerjee became the sixth Nobel Laureate from Kolkata. Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, Mother Teresa, CV Raman and Ronald Ross are the others from Kolkata or have a connection ...