Who received the Infosys Prize 2025 in Economics, and for what field of research?
- Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford) — social and economic network mapping in Karnataka villages
- Nikhil Agarwal (MIT) — market design for school choice, medical residency, kidney exchange
- Kaushik Basu (Cornell) — development economics and global inequality
- Rohini Pande (Yale) — field experiments on governance and political accountability
Answer: Nikhil Agarwal (MIT) — for market design, including methodology for studying school choice, medical residency matching, and kidney exchange mechanisms
Nikhil Agarwal is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT and a co-director of Blueprint Labs. He received the Infosys Prize 2025 in Economics for developing empirical methods to study and improve allocation mechanisms — practical systems like school admission lotteries, medical residency matching, and kidney exchange programmes that need to match people to places or resources without using prices.