Peer-reviewed publications, working papers, and policy briefs from field-based research across rural India.
Examines the dynamics of the farm size-productivity relationship in the semi-arid tropics of India using four decades of longitudinal data from 1975 to 2014.
Documents the evolution of social networks in Kanzara village, tracing changing patterns of social, informational, agricultural, and financial interactions over time.
Provides insights into the labour supply behaviour of cultivator and labour households using longitudinal survey data from the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.
Analyses how caste-based informal credit networks function in semi-arid tropical India, their evolution over time, and implications for risk-sharing among rural households.
Studying how farmers in rainfed, high-risk districts adjust crop choices to manage agrarian risk. Using event-style models and ML to identify diversification as deliberate coping strategy.
Mapping the makhana value chain to measure value capture, identify bottlenecks, and design policy roadmap for local processing and premium market links.
Building the case that seasonal migration should be part of agriculture policy in rainfed India. Links post-monsoon underemployment to mobility support and income stabilisation.
Finite-horizon model of early-career budget allocation with competing claims: student-loan EMIs, kin transfers, sibling tuition, peer-visible consumption, and saving.
12-village RCT with baseline, randomized contract-clarity workshops, and endline. Treatment villages showed higher insurance uptake among horticulture farmers.
Three-wave full-village panel in semi-arid Maharashtra tracking individuals, households, networks (credit, information, labour, resources). Modelled network evolution and how position shapes credit access, technology adoption, and productivity.
