Muddasir Ahmad Akhoon

I am a doctoral candidate in Food and Agribusiness Management (2020 - Present) at the Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. My research interests span spatial economics, applied spatial econometrics, environmental economics, resource economics, productivity and efficiency analysis, climate change and agricultural economics. In my doctoral dissertation, I explore the impact evaluation of policies through the use of earth observation data from various satellites. The increasing availability of such data in the public domain opens new avenues for economic research, particularly in impact evaluation, climate change, and sustainability studies. I demonstrate how earth observation data can be leveraged with economics to assess policies in a cost-effective manner and address research questions that would otherwise remain unanswered in the absence of on-ground survey data.