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Abhijit Banerjee

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareIncome, Poverty, and InequalityMicrofinance and Financial InclusionGlobal Maternal and Child HealthChild Nutrition and Water Access

Abhijit Banerjee works in Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Global Maternal and Child Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access. Recorded institutional associations include National Bureau of Economic Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1,203Publications
35,507Citations
77H-index

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. A Simple Model of Herd Behavior

    1992 · 6,475 citations

  2. Occupational Choice and the Process of Development

    1993 · 3,087 citations

  3. The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

    2015 · 2,060 citations

  4. The Economic Lives of the Poor

    2007 · 1,606 citations

  5. Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

    2007 · 1,393 citations

  6. History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India

    2005 · 1,263 citations

  7. The Diffusion of Microfinance

    2012 · 1,248 citations

  8. A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries

    2015 · 1,068 citations

  9. Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps

    2015 · 979 citations

  10. On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China

    2020 · 897 citations

  11. Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program

    2014 · 757 citations

  12. Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?

    2000 · 720 citations

  13. The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

    2009 · 654 citations

  14. What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?

    2008 · 648 citations

  15. Volatility and growth: Credit constraints and the composition of investment

    2010 · 642 citations

  16. Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?

    2003 · 591 citations

  17. A Theory of Misgovernance

    1997 · 556 citations

  18. Thy Neighbor's Keeper: The Design of a Credit Cooperative with Theory and a Test

    1994 · 555 citations

  19. Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal

    2002 · 552 citations

  20. Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

    2012 · 533 citations

  21. Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry*

    2000 · 525 citations

  22. Currency crises and monetary policy in an economy with credit constraints

    2001 · 524 citations

  23. The political economy of public goods: Some evidence from India

    2006 · 516 citations

  24. Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives

    2010 · 505 citations

  25. History, Social Divisions, and Public Goods in Rural India

    2005 · 438 citations

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