Tavneet Suri's research centers on a variety of applied economics issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. She uses microeconomic and econometric models to examine the efficiency of household behavior and to understand subsequent policy implications. In addition, she often spends time in the field collecting her own survey data. Her research includes analyzing the costs and benefits households face when deciding whether to use rural seed technologies in Kenya, the extent of risk-pooling insurance mechanisms in rural Kenya, the trade-offs between child labor and schooling in Ghana and role of human development in policy sequencing across countries. Her ongoing projects investigate the role of cereal banks in reducing price variations and the impacts of the distribution of price information in rural Western Kenya.

Web Page: http://www.mit.edu/~tavneet

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