Rabail Chandio

Rabail Chandio is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) at The Ohio State University. Rabail is currently a Research Assistant for the Farm Income Enhancement Program.

Her research interests include farm size inequality, agricultural household welfare, and agricultural baseline projections. One of her working papers evaluates the impacts of environmental conservation policy on the farmer’s productivity and land conflicts between the farmers and squatters in Brazil. Another paper is exploring how the profusion of new farm technologies are changing the farm size distribution and affecting inequality among farmers in India. She is also working on the viability of the US baselines projections under a number of policy assumptions.

In addition to her research activities, Rabail has made outreach contributions to the OSU Farm Science Review 2021. She has also held multiple teaching assignments as a teaching assistant and lab instructor. Most recently, she was the lab instructor for the graduate course Applied Quantitative Methods III (AEDECON 6130) in Spring 2021 and the first year Ph.D. econometrics sequence Advanced Quantitative Methods I & II in Fall 2020.

For more details, please visit Rabail's personal website.

Advisors: Dr. Leah Bevis and Dr. Ani Katchova