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Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee

Indian-American economistWikipedia

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Nov 2, 2026

Melchior LengsfeldGUEST
7:48
Also heute wird, äh, wissenschaftlich gemessen, was funktioniert, was funktioniert nicht.
Melchior LengsfeldGUEST
7:54
Ähm, es wurde vor einigen Jahren auch oder sogar der Nobelpreis in Wirtschaftswissenschaften vergeben an Esther Duflo, an Abhijit Banerjee.
Melchior LengsfeldGUEST
8:05
Genau für diese Art von Wirkungsmessung, äh, wo man sagt, wir können im Kleinen und auch im Größeren nachvollziehen und belegen, was funktioniert und was funktioniert nicht oder was ist nicht wirklich kosteneffizient.
Melchior LengsfeldGUEST
8:18
Und diese Einsichten aus der Forschung, aus der Wissenschaft zurückzutragen in unsere Programme, das ist für uns ein ganz wichtiges Anliegen.
Tanvir UddinGUEST
29:16
So I think two things for me.
Tanvir UddinGUEST
29:18
Poor Economics by Esther DeFlo and Abhijit Banerjee is great for understanding how micro experiments can give us a lot of insight.
Tanvir UddinGUEST
29:25
But I think what I leave the book with is the global problem seems so overwhelming.
Tanvir UddinGUEST
29:32
We've got wars, we've got genocide, we've got environmental disasters.
speaker_0NARRATOR
14:12
Research that has been directly applied in real-world spectrum auctions worth billions of dollars.
speaker_0NARRATOR
14:17
In 2019, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty, using randomized controlled trials to test what actually works in education and healthcare rather than relying on theory alone.
speaker_0NARRATOR
14:29
And Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the prize for their work on market design and matching theory, which led to practical systems for things like efficiently matching kidney donors with patients who need them.
speaker_0NARRATOR
14:38
These are economists designing systems that literally allocate resources to people based on the value those people assign to them, in the most efficient way possible, and the results are measurable and replicable.

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