Abhijit Banerjee Age, Wiki and Bio

Quick Info

Profession	Economist
Nationality	American
Date of Birth	21/02/1961
Age	63 years
Birthplace	Kolkata, India

Bio/Wiki

Full Name	Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Nickname	Jhima
Famous For	Winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics

Physical Stats & More

Height	178 cm
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Salt & Pepper

Educational Qualification(s)

College/University	Presidency College, Calcutta Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Degrees	B.S. degree in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta, in 1981 M.A. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, in 1983 Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1988

Personal Life

Religion	Not Known
Ethnicity	Bengali Indian
Hobbies	Cooking Listening to Classical Music Playing Table Tennis
Controversy	While sharing an incident of his student life at the JNU, he told the Hindustan Times in 2016 that in 1983, he and his friends were kept in Tihar jail for 10 days and were beaten up for 'gheraoing the vice-chancellor in his house for the umpteenth time' for expelling the president of the student union.
Food Habit	Non-Vegetarian

Relationships & More

Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	Arundhati Tuli Banerjee Esther Duflo
Marriage Date	2015
Family	Spouse: Esther Duflo (Second Wife) Children: Array

Family

Father

Dipak Banerjee (a professor and head of the Department of Economics at Presidency College, Calcutta)

Mother

Nirmala Banerjee (a professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

Siblings

Brother	Aniruddha (younger; lives in Gurugram)
Sister	None

Career

Field	Development Economics
Doctoral Advisor	Eric Maskin
Doctoral Students	Esther Duflo Dean Karlan Benjamin Jones
Popular Books	Volatility And Growth (2005; Oxford University Press) Making Aid Work (2005; MIT Press) Understanding Poverty (2006; Oxford University Press) Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) Handbook of Field Experiments, Volume 1 & 2 (2017) A Short History of Poverty Measurements (2019)

Favourites

Dessert	Bengali Sandesh adorned with rose petal
Food	Exotic Lucknow Style Kebabs
Sports	Cricket Table Tennis

Some Lesser Known Facts

Abhijit Banerjee, a renowned Indian American economist, clinched the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.
During his youth, Abhijit engaged in playing with underprivileged children residing in a Kolkata slum close to his residence.
Abhijit boasts a varied academic journey, having pursued education at prestigious institutions like Presidency College, JNU, Harvard, and MIT.
He gained recognition for advocating field experiments as a crucial research methodology in the field of economics.
In collaboration with Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee earned the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their impactful efforts in combating global poverty.