Abhijit banerjee: Nobel-winning economists Esther Duflo and

Nobel-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee to leave US for Zurich US-based Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will soon join the University of Zurich, where they will establish a new centre for development economics, the institution said Friday. The University of Zurich (UZH) said the married couple, who currently work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), would join its economics faculty from July next year. Contact Information View & Download CV Office Phone 617-253-8855 Email Address banerjee @mit.edu Office E52-540 Assistant Name Pooja S. Bijarnia Affiliations Co-Founder & Director, J-PAL Co-Chair, Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan, and he remains one of the Lab’s Directors. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 was awarded jointly to Abhijit Banerjee , Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"