Vitae

Education

• Ph.D, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut, 2019.

       - Dissertation title: Economic Aspects of Selling, Acquiring and Managing Ecosystem Services         

• M.S., Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, 2013.

• M.A., Economics, Jadavpur University, India, 2008.

• B.A., Economics, Jadavpur University, India, 2006

Area of interest:

• Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Non-market valuation, experimental economics.

Employment history:

• • Assistant professor, Krea University, September 2023 to present.

  • Post-doctoral research fellow, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, May 2019 to September 2023.

  • Student tutor, University of Connecticut, Student Athlete Success Program: Fall 2018                                    

  • Adjunct faculty (Principles of microeconomics), University of Connecticut, Waterbury campus: Fall 2017, Spring 2018.

  • Graduate Research Assistant, ARE, UConn:  August 2013 to present.

  • Graduate Research Assistant, ACE, UIUC: August 2010 – July 2013

  • Research Associate, Global Change Programme -Jadavpur University: July 2008 - July 2010

Publications: 

• • Chakrabarti, A; Campbell, B and Shonkwiler, V. 2019. "Eliciting Consumer Preference and Willingness to Pay for Mushrooms: A Latent Class Approach". Journal of Food Distribution Research. 50 (1): 46 - 62.  

  • Chakrabarti, A; Chase, L; Strong, A and Swallow, S. 2019. "Making Markets for Private Provision of Ecosystem Services: The Bobolink Project". Ecosystem Services. 39.

  • Chakrabarti, A; Campbell, B; Rabinowitz, A and Brewer, B. 2021. "Use and benefits associated with state marketing programs". Q Open, Vol. 1, Issue 2.

  • Arata, L; Chakrabarti, A; Ekane, N; Foged H.L; Pahmeyer, C; Rosemarin, A and Sckokai, P. (2022). Assessment of environmental and farm business impacts of phosphorus policies in two European regions. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 419.

  • Arata, L; Chakrabarti, A; Pahmeyer, C and Sckokai, P. 2023. Can public policies tackle the phosphorus paradox in pig farming? The case of Po-valley and Lower Saxony. Journal of Cleaner Production, 137835. 

  • Chakrabarti, A; Shonkwiler, V and Campbell, J. 2023. VIDALIA Branding and Co-labeling Strategy: A Cluster Analysis of Sweet Onion Buyers and Potential Buyers. Journal of Food Distribution Research. 54(2): 47-75.

Manuscripts under review:

• Quantifying land use change in Bakken region: A dynamic matching approach

Manuscripts in progress:

• • Participation and Contribution in Bobolink Ecosystem Service Market: Implications of an Individualized Price Auction Mechanism. 

  • Implementing Reverse Auctions with Screening Criteria to Provide Ecosystem Services , with Stephen Swallow and Pengfei Liu.

  • Impact of oil and gas drilling on land use changes in the Bakken region, with Charles Towe.

Grants:

2016-2017. Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research (CBEAR): “Understanding Incentives for Farmers’ Behavior in a Reverse Procurement Auction with Screening Criteria:  Application to Grassland Bird Conservation in Environmental Markets”, Anwesha Chakrabarti (Co-PI) and Stephen Swallow (PI), $30,000. 

Seminar presentations:

• • Chakrabarti A. (2012). Eliciting Illinois Farmers’ Willingness to Grow Energy Crops, Using a Choice Experiment Approach. Program in Environmental and Resource Economics (pERE), UIUC, October 16, 2012.

  • Chakrabarti A., Swallow S. K., Anderson C. (2014). Marketing Ecosystem Services Using a Lindahl-Style Individual Price Auction Mechanism: A Case Study from Vermont”. Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

  • Chakrabarti A., Swallow S. K., Anderson C. (2015). Marketing Ecosystem Service Using an Individual Price Auction Mechanism: Lessons from Bobolink Farming.  AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

  • Chakrabarti A., and Swallow S. K. (2017). Understanding Farmers’ Behavior in a Reverse Procurement Auction with Screening Criteria: Application to Grassland Bird Conservation. CANHR Annual Research Forum. Storrs-CT. March 25, 2017.

  • Chakrabarti A., Liu P., Swallow S.K. (2018). Implementing Reverse Auctions with Screening Criteria to Provide Ecosystem Services. Annual Meeting, August 5 – 7, 2018, Washington D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

  • Arata, L., Chakrabarti, A., and Sckokai, P. (2019). PEGaSus : Bridging the gaps in the phosphorus value chain. Project meeting. 7 -8 October 2019. Belfast.

  • Arata, L., Chakrabarti, A., Pahmeyer, C., and Sckokai, P. (2020). A Bioeconomic Model of Sustainable Phosphorus Management in Italian Pig Farms. Annual meeting, February 6 -7, 2020, Brescia. Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics.

  • Arata, L., Chakrabarti, A., Pahmeyer, C., and Sckokai, P. (2020). Sustainable Phosphorus Management in Italian Pig and Poultry farms. Annual meeting, June 11 - 12, 2020, Bari (online conference). Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata.

  • Arata, L., Chakrabarti, A., and Sckokai, P. (2020). Sustainable Phosphorus Management in Italian Pig and Poultry farms. Project meeting (online). June 25, 2020, Stockholm.  

  • Chakrabarti, A., Castellari, E., Arata, L., and Sckokai, P. (2022). Eliciting Italian Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Weather Index Insurance. Annual meeting, June 16 - 17, 2022, Viterbo. Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata.

  • Chakrabarti, A., Castellari, E., Arata, L., and Sckokai, P. (2023). Eliciting Italian Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Weather Index Insurance: The Role of Risk and Loss Aversion. XVII EAAE Congress, August 29 - September 1, 2023, Rennes. 

Report:

• Roy J., Chakrabarti A., and Mukhopadhyay K. (2010). Extreme Events, Water Resources, Status of Human Health, Livelihood: An Adaptation Framework for Kolkata Urban Agglomeration. Final Report submitted to NATCOM II, Govt. of India.

 Poster:

• • Roy J. Chakrabarti A., and Mukhopadhyay K. (2009). Health in Sustainable Development of India: Some Empirical Results of Heat Stress in Megacity Kolkata and Need for Adaptation Strategy. 8th International Conference on “Urban Health: Meeting Urban Health Needs through Innovative Research, Policies and Interventions”, Nairobi, Kenya. 

  • Chakrabarti, A. and Swallow, S. (2016). Marketing Ecosystem Services Using an Individual Price Auction Mechanism: Lessons from Bobolink Farming. CANHR Annual Research Forum. Storrs-CT. March 5, 2016.

Summer internship:

Summer 2009: Worked intensively with a research team in the research project, titled “Willingness to Pay Study for the Urban Water Services in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Area” commissioned by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation-Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project and funded by DFID, UK under the Global Change Programme, Jadavpur University.

Honors and Awards:

• • Graduate student travel grant, AAEA Foundation, 2014

  • Graduate School Conference Travel Award, University of Connecticut, 2015

  • Post-Conference workshop stipend, AAEA Trust, 2015

  • Pre-doctoral fellowship, ARE, University of Connecticut, 2015, 2016

  • Doctoral dissertation fellowship, graduate school, University of Connecticut, 2017

  • Paul Putnam travel award, University of Connecticut, 2018

  • Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Communication, The Food Distribution Research Society, 2019.

Other services:

• • 2015–2016: Secretary, Graduate Student Association, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UConn.

  • 2014 –2016: Department representative, Graduate Student Council, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources. 

Computing skills: STATA, R, ArcGIS.

Languages: Bengali (native), Hindi (Fluent), English (fluent).