New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The latest joint awardees of the Nobel Prize for Economics 2019 for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are having a good time and the world is calling them ‘Couple Goals’.
After receiving this award they became the sixth married couple to be conferred with Nobel Prize. The last time a couple was awarded Nobel Prize was in 2014 when May Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser won the Nobel Prize in medicine. The first couple to won the Nobel Prize was Pierre Curie and Marie Curie in 1903 who won the award for discovering Radium and Polonium.
Born in Kolkata, Abhijit Banerjee was an alumnus of South Point School and Presidency College and is currently working at MIT as the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics. While Esther Duflo is a French-American economist and the couple has founded the Abdul Lateef Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
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Surprisingly, Esther was a student of Banerjee when the two first met. Banerjee was the joint supervisor of Esther at the time when she was pursuing her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1999. In 1997, Banerjee and Duflo came to India for her project and Banerjee was her guide throughout the tour.
Abhijit Banerjee was married to Dr. Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, a professor at MIT initially and had a son with her, but eventually, the two got divorced. After his divorce, Banerjee moved in with Duflo after their trip to India where they bot lived together for 18 months. The duo even had a child in 2012 and got formally married in 2015.
Then the couple went on to achieve more big achievements in life and transformed the development economics and the way it is perceived in the world. And now today, the couple was conferred with a Nobel Prize making them a real couple goals.