Researcher: Anil Bhargava

Award: Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Amount: $1,000

Award Description: The Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is given in recognition of development of professional excellence by persons writing doctoral dissertations in any field consistent with the AAEA Vision Statement. A maximum of three awards are given each year.

Anil will also be presenting his paper, “The Effect of NREGA on Agricultural Production, Labor, and Technology Adoption: New Evidence from a Detailed Indian Household-Plot Panel” at the 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.