Shilpa Aggarwal
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Hyderabad - 500 032, India
+91-40-2318-7266
shilpa_aggarwal at isb dot edu
Curriculum Vita
Working Papers
The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers for Agricultural Households (with Jenny Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Park, Jonathan Robinson and Alan Spearot)
Revise & Resubmit (Round 3), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Older version based on pre-analysis plan
Designing Incentives for Impatient People: An RCT Promoting Exercise to Manage Diabetes (with Rebecca Dizon-Ross and Ariel Zucker)
Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Minimum Support Prices in Indian Agriculture: Supporting Whom and at What Price? (with Ishani Chatterjee and Natasha Jha)
Going the Extra Mile: Farm Subsidies and Spatial Convergence in Agricultural Input Adoption (with Naresh Kumar, Dahyeon Jeong, David Park, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot)
Publications
Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi (with David Park, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot)
Forthcoming, The World Bank Economic Review
Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania (with Brian Giera, Dahyeon Jeong, Jonathan Robinson and Alan Spearot), 2024
The Review of Economics and Statistics 106 (6): 1511–1528
Shortening the Path to Productive Investment: Evidence from Input Fairs and Cash Transfers in Malawi (with Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Park, Jonathan Robinson and Alan Spearot), 2024
Journal of Development Economics 170 (2024): 103288
Exhaustive or Exhausting? Evidence on Respondent Fatigue in Long Surveys (with Dahyeon Jeong, Jonathan Robinson, Naresh Kumar, Alan Spearot and David Sungho Park), 2023
Journal of Development Economics 161 (2023): 102992
Saving for Multiple Financial Needs: Evidence from Lockboxes and Mobile Money in Malawi (with Valentina Brailovskaya and Jonathan Robinson), 2023
The Review of Economics and Statistics 105 (4): 833–851
COVID-19 market disruptions and food security: Evidence from households in rural Liberia and Malawi (with Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Park, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot), 2022
PLoS ONE 17 (8): e0271488
The Long Road to Health: Healthcare Utilization Impacts of a Road Pavement Policy in Rural India, 2021
Journal of Development Economics 151 (2021): 102667
Cashing In (and Out): Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Mobile Money in Malawi (with Valentina Brailovskaya and Jonathan Robinson), 2020
AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (2020): 599-604
Online Appendix
Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow: Evidence from a Storage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya (with Eilin Francis and Jonathan Robinson), 2018
Journal of Development Economics 134 (2018): 1-15
Do Rural Roads Create Pathways out of Poverty? Evidence from India, 2018
Journal of Development Economics 133 (2018): 375-395
Works in Progress
The Value of Value Chains: An Experiment linking Farmers’ Cooperatives with a Maize Processor in Rwanda (with Susan Godlonton, Ammar Kawash, Jonathan Robinson, Alan Spearot and Guanghong Xu)
Green Shoots: Seeding a Market for Certified Cassava Cuttings among Cooperatives in Rwanda (with Athanase Nduwumuremyi, Jonathan Robinson, Youngwoo Song, Alan Spearot and Guanghong Xu)
It’s Showtime! Improving Agricultural Productivity through TV Programming and Improved Input Access (with Francisco Ceballos, Berber Kramer, and Jonathan Robinson)
A Road for all Seasons: Market Access and Inter-temporal Arbitrage in Rural India (with Ishani Chatterjee)
Book Chapters and Other Papers
Impact of a financial incentive scheme on purchase of fruits and vegetables from unorganised retailers in rural India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial (with Kinra, S., P. C. Mallinson, A. Debbarma, H. L. Wells, J. Lieber, S. Bhogadi, S. Addanki, R. Pande, A. V. Krupad, N. K. Kannuri, B. Kulkarni, E. A. Finkelstein, and S. Deo) The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 12:100140
Financing Businesses in Africa: The Role of Microfinance (with Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer), Chapter 9 in Microfinance in Developing and Developed Countries: Issues, Policies and Performance Evaluation, Jean-Pierre Gueyie, Ronny Manos and Jacob Yaron, eds., Published by Palgrave Macmillan 2013
Designing Government Policies to Expand Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Around the World (with Leora Klapper)