Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Date of birth:
19th December 1987, India

Current Position
since August 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Göttingen, Chair of Agricultural Market Analysis

Education

  • 2016 - 2020
    PhD (Agricultural Economics), University of Goettingen, Germany, Research Training Group 1644, “Scaling Problems in Statistics”.
  • 2014-2016
    Ms. Agricultural Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany
  • 2009-2011
    M.A. Economics, Delhi School of Economics, India



Professional Experience

  • 06/2020 -06/2021:
    Research Scholar, University of Göttingen
  • 07/2015 - 06/2016:
    Student Assistant, Chair of Public Economics, University of Hohenheim
  • 06/2012 - 07/2014:
    Consultant, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), India
  • 02/2012 - 04/2012:
    Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Area: Public Systems Group
  • 05/2011 - 11/2011:
    Consultant, Asian Development Bank, India Resident Mission
  • 08/2008 - 01/2009:
    Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Area: Economics



Publications

  • Shah, T., Mehta, Y., Verma, S., Patel, A. (2015) “Vasudhara Adivasi Dairy Cooperative: Model for the Second White Revolution?” Economic & Political Weekly, 50(7): 15-18
  • Shah, T., Mehta, Y., Kher, V., Palrecha, A. (2014) “Generating Agrarian dynamism: Saurashtra’s lessons for Vidarbha.” Economic & Political Weekly, 49(26 & 27): 86-94



Conference presentations and invited talks

  • The estimation of environmental efficiency based on methane emissions in livestock production. XVII European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Porto, Portugal, July 2022
  • The role of temporal land use in driving sustainable intensification in Bangladesh”. Invited talk. Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. April 8, 2022
  •   Efficiency Aggregation in Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Hierarchical Data”. XVI European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, London, UK, 2019
  •   Assessing the comparability between SFA and LMM with Hierarchical data: The case of Technical Efficiency. North American Productivity Workshop X, Miami, USA, 2018
  • Economic Dividend from Groundwater in India: A Regional Analysis. India Human Development Survey Users. Conference, New Delhi, India, 2014