Rigorous research documents with methodology, findings, and policy recommendations
Peer-reviewed research exploring the intersections of agricultural economics, rural development, and climate resilience in India.
Studying how farmers in rainfed, high-risk districts adjust crop choices and cropping patterns to manage agrarian risk, and how these adjustments relate to local credit use and labour reallocation. Estimating non-linear responses to climatic and productivity shocks using event-style models and machine learning to identify diversification as a deliberate coping strategy in distressed zones.
Mapping the makhana value chain to measure who captures value, identify bottlenecks in grading, processing, branding, and market access, and show where value can be retained in-state. Designing a policy and investment roadmap: local processing and quality upgrading, traceability standards, and links to premium markets.
Building the case that seasonal migration should be treated as part of agriculture policy in rainfed India. Developing a framework that links post-monsoon underemployment to mobility support, income stabilisation, and rural welfare.
Building a finite-horizon model of early-career budget allocation with competing claims: student-loan EMIs, kin transfers, sibling tuition, peer-visible consumption, and saving for housing or marriage. Estimating parameters from survey microdata and deriving threshold rules under borrowing limits and interest-rate wedges; simulating policy counterfactuals on loan terms and transfer norms.
Analysing how caste-based informal credit networks function in semi-arid tropical India, their evolution over time, and implications for risk-sharing among rural households.
Results from a 12-village RCT in Wardha and Akola districts. Designed and ran baseline, randomized contract-clarity workshops, and endline. Treatment villages showed higher real insurance uptake among horticulture farmers. Delivered contract-communication guidance to insurer and state.
We welcome working paper submissions from researchers and practitioners working on agriculture, rural development, and climate policy in India.
