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Shilpa Aggarwal
Assistant Professor, Economics and Public Policy
Email shilpa_aggarwal@isb.edu
Overview
Shilpa Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor in the Economics and Public Policy areas. She is a development economist, whose research aims to explore market linkages in developing countries. For her PhD dissertation, she examined the effects of a road construction program in India that connected remote rural areas to nearby markets. Her ongoing research is focused on agricultural supply chains in India and East Africa. She also works on issues pertaining to domestic trade, microfinance, and food policy.
Professor Aggarwal has a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an MA from the Delhi School of Economics and a BA from Shri Ram College of Commerce.
Experience
Academic
- 2014 - Present: Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business
In the Media
August 19, 2015: Road to riches? An evaluation of India’s rural road programme - See more at: http://www.ideasforindia.in/article.aspx?article_id=1491#sthash.TQKAB6MV.dpuf, Ideas for India.
July , 2015: Roads to Riches? An Evaluation of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, ISB Insight.
Research & Publications
Published Papers
Aggarwal, Shilpa., Brailovskaya, Valentina., Robinson, Jonathan. () "Saving for Multiple Financial Needs: Evidence from Lockboxes and Mobile Money in Malawi", The Review of Economics and Statistics Aggarwal, Shilpa., Jeong, Dahyeon., Kumar, Naresh., Parl, David., Robinson, Jonathan., Spearot, Alan. (2022) "COVID-19 market disruptions and food security: Evidence from households in rural Liberia and Malawi", Plos One Aggarwal, Shilpa. (2021) "The Long Road to Health: Healthcare Utilization Impacts of a Road Pavement Policy in Rural India", Journal of Development Economics , 151 Aggarwal, Shilpa. (2018) "Do Rural Roads Create Pathways out of Poverty? Evidence from India", Journal of Development Economics , 133 (July 2018), 375-395 Aggarwal, Shilpa., Francis, Eilin., Robinson, Jonathan. (2018) "Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow: Evidence from an Arbitrage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya", Journal of Development Economics , 134 (September 2018), 1-15
Working Papers
Aggarwal, Shilpa. "Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi" Aggarwal, Shilpa. "Exhaustive or Exhausting? Evidence on Respondent Fatigue in Long Surveys" Aggarwal, Shilpa., Zucker, Ariel., Dizon-Ross, Rebecca. "Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences"