Vaishnavi Surendra

Development Economist


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I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Precision Development (PxD). My research focuses on rural markets for labor, credit, and information; the role of gender in these markets; and farmer adaptation to climate change through these markets.

I received a PhD from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley in August, 2020.

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Email: vaishnavi.s@gmail.com

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Publications

Relief from Usury: Impact of a Self-Help Group Lending Program in Rural India

(with Vivian Hoffmann, Vijayendra Rao, and Upamanyu Datta)

Journal of Development Economics, January 2021

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Working Papers

Risk Sharing, Commitment Constraints and Self Help Groups

(with Orazio Attanasio, Anjini Kochar, and Aprajit Mahajan)

NBER Working Paper. 31245

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Ideas for India Blogpost

The Moneylender as Middleman: Formal Credit Supply and Informal Loans in Rural India

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Ideas of India Podcast

Ideas for India Blogpost

Access to Finance, Empowerment and Women's Employment: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bihar

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Works in Progress

Probabilistic Weather Forecasts and Farmer Decision Making in Rural India

(with Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya)

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