Abhijit Banerjee

Papers

The Diffusion of Microfinance
Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Matthew O. Jackson
April 2012

Corruption
Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan
March 2012

On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Nancy Qian
February 2012

Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
Abhijit Banerjee, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston, Nina Singh
February 2012

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation
June 2010
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
May 2010
Abhijit Banerjee, Vivi Alatas, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken and Julia Tobias

The Shape of Temptation: Impications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
April 2010
Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan

Giving Credit Where it is Due
March 2010
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Investment Efficiency and the Distribution of Wealth
2009
Abhijit Banerjee
from Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World By Ravi Kanbur, Michael Spence, Abhijit Banerjee

Improving Health Care Delivery in India
November 2009
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Marry for What? Caste and Selection in Modern India
2009
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan
May 2009

Parochial Politics: Ethnic Perferences and Politican Corruption
Abhijit Banerjee and Rohini Pande
2009

Why Does Missallocation Persist?
Abhijit Banerjee and Benjamin Moll
February 2009

A Capitalist Knows Who To Call
A. Banerjee
2008, M. Kinsley, Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Other Economic Leaders, pp.161-165.

Why fighting poverty is hard
September 2008
Abhijit Banerjee

Big Answers for Big Questions: The Presumption of Growth Policy
Abhijit Banerjee
September 2008

The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
September 2008

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs:Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani
August 2008

Mandated Empowerment: Handing Antipoverty Policy Back to the Poor?
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
June 2008

Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa
Abhijit Banerjee, Sebastian Galiani, Jim Levinsohn, Zoe McLaren and Ingrid Woolard
June 2008

Making Aid Work
Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He
May 2008

Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Creit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
May 2008

Improving Immunization Coverage in Rural India: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Evaluation of Immunization Campaigns with and without Incentives
May 2010
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Dhruva Kothari

Limited Attention and Income Distribution
Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainthan
January 2008

Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
December 2007

What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
December 2007

Public Action for Public Goods
A. Banerjee, L. Iyer and R. Somanathan
September 2006, Handbook of Development Economics, Vo. 4

The Economic Lives of the Poor
A. Banerjee and E. Duflo
April 2006, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vo. 21(1), pp. 141-167

Updated Table (March 17, 2008) for Economic Lives of the Poor and What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
with Esther Duflo

Comment on Buiter-Patel
April 2006, India Policy Forum, Vo. 2

The Paradox of Indian Growth: A comment on Kochar et al.
A. Banerjee
July 2006, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vo. 53(5), pp. 1021-1026

The Political Economy of Public Goods: Some Evidence from India
A. Banerjee and R. Somanathan
April 2006

Growth Theory through the Lens of Development Economics
A. Banerjee and E. Duflo
December 2005, Published: Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 1a. Amserdam: Elsevier, pp. 473-552

Remedying Education Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
A. Banerjee, S. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden
December 2005, NBER Working paper 11904

Addressing Absence
A. Banerjee and E. Duflo
May 2005, Published: Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vo. 20 (1), pp. 117-132

Bank Financing in India
A. Banerjee, S. Cole and E. Duflo
2005, India’s and China’s Recent Experience with Reform and Growth, Wanda Tseng and David Cowen, eds.

Inequality and Investment
A. Banerjee
December 2004

Notes Toward a Theory of Industrialization in the Developing World
A. Banerjee
October 2004, Marjit, S. and N. Banerjee (Eds.) Development, Displacement and Disparity: India in the Last Quarter of the Century, pp. 139-159

History, Social Divisions and Public Goods in Rural India
A. Banerjee, L. Iyer and R. Somanathan
2004

History, Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India
A. Banerjee and L. Iyer
October 2004

What do banks (not) do
A. Banerjee and E. Duflo
September 2004

Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
A. Banerjee and E. Duflo
August 2004

Banking Reform in India
A. Banerjee, S. Cole and E. Duflo
June 2004

Bank Financing in India
A. Banerjee, S. Cole and E. Duflo
October 2003

Top Indian Incomes, 1956-2000
A. Banerjee and T. Piketty
June 2003

Strategy For Economics Reform in West Bengal
A. Banerjee, P. Bardhan, K. Basu, M. Ghatak and et al.
October 2002, Economic and Political Weekly of India, Oct. 12, 2002

The Uses of Economic Theory: Against a Purely Positive Interpretation of Theoretical Results
A. Banerjee
May 2002

A Corporate Balance-Sheet Approach to Currency Crises
P. Aghion, P. Bacchetta and A. Banerjee
November 2001

Caste, Community and Collective Action: The Political Economy of Public Good Provision in India
A. Banerjee and R. Somanathan
September 2001

Herd Behavior and the Reward for Originality
A. Banerjee
Unpublished Mimeo, May 1989

On Frequent Flyer Programs and other Loyalty-Inducing Economic Arrangements
A. Banerjee and L. Summers
Harvard University Discussion Paper, 1337, September, 1987