Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee

Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics

Research Fields

Development Economics, Macroeconomics, Political Economy
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Contact Information

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Office Phone 617-253-8855
Email Address banerjee@mit.edu
Office E52-540
Assistant Name Kiri Gurd
Assistant Phone 617-324-5085
Affiliations Co-Founder & Director, J-PAL Co-Chair, Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel
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Featured Publications

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Good Economics for Hard Times

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
November 2019
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Cooking to Save Your Life

Abhijit Banerjee
Illustrations by Cheyenne Olivier
November 2021

Poor Economics

Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

American Economic Review 2023, 113(2): 514–547

Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor

Journal of Development Economics, Volume 155

Awards & Honors

2020
Member, National Academy of Sciences
2019
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel
2009
Infosys Award in Social Sciences