I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Amrut Mody School of Management at Ahmedabad University. I received my PhD in Economics from McGill University in 2023.

My research lies at the intersection of development economics, information economics, and applied microeconomics. I study how information frictions shape the adoption of risk management tools — including agricultural technologies and insurance products — across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. My work is organized around two mechanisms: how networks and social learning determine whether and how information about new technologies diffuses and translates into adoption decisions, and how learning from personal experience shapes farmers’ demand for and take-up of risk management practices. Ongoing work extends this agenda to informal risk-sharing in network settings, and more broadly to settings where information, networks, and incentives shape behavior outside of agricultural contexts.

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Email: aranya.chakraborty@ahduni.edu.in or aranyacecon@gmail.com