My broad research interests center around the nexus of environmental and agricultural-food economics, specifically focusing on their interplay with population dynamics, socio-economic factors, household dynamics, and health outcomes. I explore several research questions: First, I examine how climate change and disasters are associated with household sorting behaviors and how these behaviors impact spatial population dynamics. Second, I analyze how agricultural policy interventions are distributed not only across individuals of different socio-economic backgrounds but also across different races and ethnicities. Third, I am interested in assessing how the incentives surrounding food policy interventions relate to the health outcomes of participants, examining the heterogeneity in treatment effects across race and household dynamics.
Ashutosh is a Ph.D. student in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Before his Ph.D., he earned his Master's in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics from the University of Georgia. Ashutosh has also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Georgia, where he applied machine learning techniques to predict soybean futures market returns. Additionally, he served as a Research Assistant at the Nepal Agriculture Research Council, focusing on policy reports for cereal crop trade.