Date of birth:
19th December 1987, India

Current Position
since August 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Göttingen, Chair of Agricultural Market Analysis

Education

• 2016 - 2020
  PhD (Agricultural Economics), University of Goettingen, Germany, Research Training Group 1644, “Scaling Problems in Statistics”.
• 2014-2016
  Ms. Agricultural Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany
• 2009-2011
  M.A. Economics, Delhi School of Economics, India

Professional Experience

• 06/2020 -06/2021:
  Research Scholar, University of Göttingen
• 07/2015 - 06/2016:
  Student Assistant, Chair of Public Economics, University of Hohenheim
• 06/2012 - 07/2014:
  Consultant, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), India
• 02/2012 - 04/2012:
  Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Area: Public Systems Group
• 05/2011 - 11/2011:
  Consultant, Asian Development Bank, India Resident Mission
• 08/2008 - 01/2009:
  Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Area: Economics

Publications

• Shah, T., Mehta, Y., Verma, S., Patel, A. (2015) “Vasudhara Adivasi Dairy Cooperative: Model for the Second White Revolution?” Economic & Political Weekly, 50(7): 15-18
• Shah, T., Mehta, Y., Kher, V., Palrecha, A. (2014) “Generating Agrarian dynamism: Saurashtra’s lessons for Vidarbha.” Economic & Political Weekly, 49(26 & 27): 86-94

Conference presentations and invited talks

• The estimation of environmental efficiency based on methane emissions in livestock production. XVII European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Porto, Portugal, July 2022
• The role of temporal land use in driving sustainable intensification in Bangladesh”. Invited talk. Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. April 8, 2022
•   Efficiency Aggregation in Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Hierarchical Data”. XVI European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, London, UK, 2019
•   Assessing the comparability between SFA and LMM with Hierarchical data: The case of Technical Efficiency. North American Productivity Workshop X, Miami, USA, 2018
• Economic Dividend from Groundwater in India: A Regional Analysis. India Human Development Survey Users. Conference, New Delhi, India, 2014