Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee is named in Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) as one of the economists who won Nobel recognition alongside Michael Kremer and Esther Duflo for randomized approaches to poverty alleviation. The source uses the prize to mark the mainstreaming of Randomized Controlled Trials in Development Economics.

Within this wiki, his role is mostly contextual for the Busia branch. The episode is centered on Kenya, Busia, Kenya, and specific studies, while Banerjee helps identify the broader research movement those studies came to represent.

Connections

• Michael Kremer and Esther Duflo - co-recognized economists in the episode’s Nobel context.
• Randomized Controlled Trials and Evidence-Based Development Policy - methodology and policy frame.
• Development Research Ethics - downstream question of who benefits from randomized evidence.