Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Vinayak 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 International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, along with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan and remains one of the directors of the lab. He is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a Research Associate of the NBER, a CEPR research fellow, International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. His areas of research are development economics and economic theory. He has authored two books as well as a large number of articles and is the editor of a third book. He finished his first documentary film, “The name of the disease” in 2006.
Content by Abhijit Banerjee
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Blog post
The economic and political consequences of India’s demonetisation
The ruling party at the centre won the Uttar Pradesh state election despite its demonetisation policy having some negative economic impacts on the Indian economy. By combining primary data from surveys of wholesale and retail traders, with secondary data on wholesale markets, this column seeks to analyse why this was so. Experiments in macroeconomic policy are rare. One...
31 Jul 2017 | Abhijit Banerjee, Namrata Kala
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Publication - Project Report
Capturing urban mobility with cell phone data with an application of flyover opening in Dhaka
7 Jul 2017 | Yuhei Miyauchi, Abhijit Banerjee
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Project
Impact of traffic infrastructure on urban land use in Dhaka
Dhaka is infamous for its severe traffic congestion. Road traffic is almost the only transportation mode available in the city as of 2015, and the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) is planned to open in 2019. Previous studies have noted that such traffic congestion constraints the economic activity of the city. For example, Muzzini and Aparicio (2013) document that traffic...
7 Jul 2017 | Yuhei Miyauchi, Abhijit Banerjee
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Project
Ghana ultra-poor employment study
This research provided new evidence that the rural poor are both willing and able to participate in paid labor, suggesting a high demand for employment programs. Employment programs and financial services may be more effective when implemented together. Anti-poverty programs that improve the mental and physical wellbeing of the poor may also improve...
10 Oct 2014 | Dean Karlan, Abhijit Banerjee, Bram Thuysbert, Chris Udry
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Project
Enhancing local public service delivery: Experimental evidence on the national rural employment guarantee scheme in Bihar
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MG-NREGS) is among the largest social protection programs in the world. In 2009-2010, administrative sources reported that MG-NREGS provided employment to 53.5 million households. Despite its impressive scale, in some states, including some of the poorest States of India like Bihar, the scheme appears to fall...
10 Oct 2014 | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande
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Publication - Policy Brief
Services Delivery and Centralization in Urban Slums (Policy Brief)
10 Oct 2014 | Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton
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Blog post
Emerging Challenges: Economic and Social
The recent parliamentary election may well turn out to be a significant event in Indian history. The campaign was all about the lackluster economic performance over the last three years, and the expectations from the new regime are sky high. Interestingly, based on manifestos and recent budgets, the party that won the election does not seem to have a very different...
5 Sep 2014 | Abhijit Banerjee, Mukul Kesavan
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Project
Urban Governance and Poverty Reduction in Delhi's Slums
India is under-urbanized relative to her income level, leading to widespread expectations of large-scale rural-to-urban migration in coming years. An old and new literature posits that cities underpin long-term economic dynamism, through the spatial concentration of skills and ideas. This project aims to highlight the constraints placed on such dynamism by low-quality...
4 Sep 2014 | Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton, Anjali Bharadwaj
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Project
Public goods, location choice and the voting decisions of the urban poor
India is under-urbanized relative to her income level, leading to widespread expectations of large-scale rural-to-urban migration in coming years. An old and new literature posits that cities underpin long-term economic dynamism, through the spatial concentration of skills and ideas. This project aims to highlight the constraints placed on such dynamism by low-quality...
4 Sep 2014 | Abhijit Banerjee, Anjali Bharadwaj, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton
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Publication - Working Paper
Employing the Ultra-Poor in Ghana: Investigating Rural Labor Markets
15 Dec 2012 | Dean Karlan, Abhijit Banerjee, Bram Thuysbert, Chris Udry
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Publication - Policy Brief
Employing the Ultra-Poor in Ghana: Investigating Rural Labor Markets (Policy Brief)
1 Dec 2012 | Dean Karlan, Abhijit Banerjee, Chris Udry, Bram Thuysbert, Robert Darko Osei
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Publication - Working Paper
Delhi’s Slum-Dwellers: Deprivation, Preferences and Political Engagement among the Urban Poor (Working Paper)
22 Oct 2012 | Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton
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Publication - Policy Brief
Delhi’s Slum-Dwellers: Deprivation, Preferences and Political Engagement among the Urban Poor (Policy Brief)
1 Oct 2012 | Abhijit Banerjee, Anjali Bharadwaj, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton
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Publication - Working Paper
Delhi’s Slum-Dwellers: Deprivation, Preferences and Political Engagement among the Urban Poor (Working Paper)
1 Oct 2012 | Abhijit Banerjee, Anjali Bharadwaj, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton
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Project
Investigating the relationship between poor sanitation infrastructure and water quality in Delhi’s slums
India is under-urbanized relative to her income level, leading to widespread expectations of large-scale rural-to-urban migration in coming years. An old and new literature posits that cities underpin long-term economic dynamism, through the spatial concentration of skills and ideas. This project aims to highlight the constraints placed on such dynamism by low-quality...
1 Jul 2012 | Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton, Anjali Bharadwaj
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Publication - Policy Brief
Enhancing Local Public Service Delivery (Policy Brief)
1 Mar 2012 | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande
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Publication - Policy Brief
Services Delivery and Centralization in Urban Slums (Policy Brief)
1 Mar 2012 | Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton
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Multimedia Item - Video
Video: Infrastructure and Urbanisation - Ideas for Growth Session 3: IGC, Growth Week 2011
11 Jan 2012
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Publication - Working Paper
Enhancing Local Public Service Delivery (Final Report)
10 Aug 2011 | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande
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Publication - Policy Brief
On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China (Policy Brief)
1 Dec 2010 | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nancy Qian
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Publication - Working Paper
On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China (Working Paper)
1 Dec 2010 | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nancy Qian
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Project
Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China
This study investigates the role of access to transportation infrastructure in promoting economic growth. Do areas that benefit from access to better transportation infrastructure grow faster as a consequence? Despite the existing evidence that increased access to infrastructure reduces the cost of trade and labor migration, which in turn, should increase economic...
1 Jun 2009 | Nancy Qian, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo