Nobel Prize for research methods using Development Economics

with Abhijit Banerjee & Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; with Banerjee, Sendhil Mullainathan & Rachel Glennerster founded MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in 2003 which is a global network of antipoverty researchers that conducts field experiments facilitating work across the world & examines which kinds of local interventions have the greates impact on social problems using randomization of testing; 2016 helped create MITx MicroMasters program in Data, Economics & Developmental Policy; founding editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; editor of The American Economic Review, co-editor of The Review of Economics & Statistics, & The Journal of Developmental Economics; writes a monthly column for Liberation, a French daily newspaper; searches for practical solutions to small problems in specific areas rather than looking for one-size-fits-all solutions to globl questions; has determined it is impossible to generalize on the basis of a specific, place-based experiment

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Economics

Completion Status:
yes

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