| Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics | University of California, Berkeley

Sayantan (Sunny) Mitra

Job Market Paper:

The Environment-Development Trade-off : Evaluating Local Distributional Impacts of Clearing Forests for Infrastructure

CV:

Fields of research:

Publications / Working Papers:

- “The Environment-Development Trade-off : Evaluating Local Distributional Impacts of Clearing Forests for Infrastructure” (World Bank Development Impact blog post)
- “Is Afforestation Really Compensatory? Long-Term Effects of Mandated Compensatory Afforestation on Forest Cover” (draft available on request)
- “Diffusion of Machine-harvestable Chickpeas and Implications for Female Labor Markets” with Aprajit Mahajan and Swamikannu Nedumaran (draft available on request)

Education:

Honors and Awards:

Research Grants as PI:
2024: Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies- Bhattacharya Graduate Research Fellowship ($1,500)
2023: UC Berkeley- Lau Graduate Fellowship in Climate Equity ($9,000), Giannini Foundation for Agricultural Economics- Research Grant ($35,000)
2022: Middlebury College- Davis Project for Peace Award ($10,000), Giannini Foundation for Agricultural Economics- Research Grant ($30,000)
2021: MIT Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Gender & Economic Agency Initiative ($20,000)
2020: J-PAL- King Climate Action Initiative Research Award ($50,000), UC Berkeley- Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellowship ($5,000)
2019: Giannini Foundation for Agricultural Economics- Exploratory Research Grant ($60,000)
Research Grants as Co-PI:
2024: J-PAL- King Climate Action Initiative ($300,000), Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)- Development Economics Challenge ($8000)
2023: Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)- PEDL Exploratory Research Grant (GBP 40,000)
2022: J-PAL Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative ($75,000)
2020: Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)- SPIA Grant ($600,000)

Teaching:

UC Berkeley:
Economics of Natural Resources (Larry Karp) - Graduate Student Instructor - Fall 2021
Economics of Water Resources (David Sunding) - Graduate Student Instructor - Spring 2021
Economics of Natural Resources (Larry Karp) - Graduate Student Instructor - Fall 2020
The College of Wooster:
Macroeconomics (Amyaz Moledina) - Teaching Assistant - Spring 2016
Linear Algebra (James Hartman) - Teaching Assistant - Fall 2015
Multivariate Calculus (Mary-Jo Kreuzman) - Teaching Assistant - Spring 2014
Principles of Economics (Shu-Ling Wang) - Teaching Assistant - Fall 2013

References:

Professor Aprajit Mahajan
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
aprajit@berkeley.edu
Professor Maximilian Auffhammer
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
auffhammer@berkeley.edu
Professor Edward Miguel
Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
emiguel@berkeley.edu

Contact Information:

207 Giannini Hall, Agricultural & Resource Economics,

University of California- Berkeley, California- 94720

Placement Directors:

Professor Maximilian Auffhammer
auffhammer@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-5472

Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
sberto@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-409-4341

Placement Officer:

Diana Lazo
lazo@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3345

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