

Manaswini Rao
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Delaware
Manaswini is a Postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Economics, University of California San Diego. Her research interests span the broad areas of development economics and economic growth. She studies the judiciary examining how frontline judicial capacity affects local firms and markets. She also works on collective action and coordination in natural and agricultural resource management. Before joining UCSD, Manaswini graduated from UC Berkeley in May 2020 with a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Recent work by Manaswini Rao
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The role of caste in agricultural technology diffusion
Local social structures, such as the jati-caste system in India, can play an important role in the extent of diffusion of new and beneficial agricultural technologies
Published 17.11.23
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Improving frontline courts in India spurred local economic development
Increasing judicial staffing in frontline courts lowers the pending backlog of legal cases and enables capital stuck in litigation to be put to more productive uses, which increases access to working capital for local firms and improves firm producti...
Published 19.09.23
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Incentivising production quality in cooperative agriculture: Evidence from Indian dairy cooperatives
Group incentives can lead agricultural cooperative managers to improve production quality, but increasing transparency around incentives can backfire
Published 15.08.22