Rimjhim Saxena

10/ Interested in learning more about my work on climate adaptation? Let’s connect! 🌍

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9/ 🌟 Why does this matter? Trade research often focuses on international trade & adaptation, leaving a gap in understanding how internal trade policies shape regional outcomes under climate stress. My JMP is the first to tackle this question.

8/ Counterfactual analysis shows that removing internal trade barriers 🛣️ could enable 28.9M people to leave agriculture, even under climate change 🌡️.

𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: This is a critical step for maintaining economic growth, and structural transformation while adapting to climate change

7/ 🔍 Using geolocated government marketplace data, I uncover how these barriers distort prices and stall labor reallocation. To quantify this, I develop a spatial equilibrium model calibrated to India’s economy. 🇮🇳

6/ These barriers arise from the 𝑨𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒆 (𝑨𝑷𝑴𝑪) 𝑨𝒄𝒕, which mandates sales at government-designated markets. 🚜 Subsistence Farmers face low ag productivity + limited competition among buyers ➡️ resulting in ⬇️ prices & limited labor mobility.

5/ 🛤️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆 is often viewed as an adaptive tool to counter climate shocks and the "food problem". But does it help? Using India’s highway expansion data, I find that internal trade barriers at the state level prevent market integration, limiting trade’s ability to mitigate climate effects.

4/ Declining Income due to climate shocks reshapes consumption patterns such that food expenditure increases (low income elasticity). Combined with falling agri productivity, this creates a “𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎” where economies over-specialize in low-productivity agriculture to ensure food security.🌽🌾

3/ 🌡️ Rising temperatures are altering the supply & demand drivers of structural transformation.

I find that climate change is 𝒑𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 in India, inhibiting structural transformation.

Nearly 56 million Indians joined back agriculture in 3 yrs: Is it a good sign or an indicator of an economic distress? Like other developing countries, India aspires for the transition of its vast farm workforce to non-farm sectors. There has been a slow transition to non-farm s

2/ Structural Transform: labor reallocation from agriculture ➡️ manufacturing ➡️ services. Yet ~43% of India’s labor force remains in agriculture, with ~90% of farmers on subsistence plots (<2 acres) & rising ag labor share in 3 years. Why? Climate + Policies. 🧵👇
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1/ 📢 Excited to share my Job Market Paper, “𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝑩𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔” 🌏! As an environmental economist, I explore how internal trade policies in India & climate change trap labor in agriculture, creating poverty traps for structural transformation & climate adaptation. #EconJMP

lol the topic of my paper actually. I show that in India the necessity of food pushes labor back into agriculture under climate change. I revisit “food problem”.

my #EconJMP in a nutshell.

A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disc. It has a shining spot at the centre from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disc fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars.

Image of a galaxy on the black background of space. The galaxy is a very oblong, blue disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock). The galaxy has a small bright core at the center. There is an inner disk that is clearer, with speckles of stars scattered throughout. The outer disk of the galaxy is whiteish-blue, and clumpy, like clouds in the sky. There are different colored dots, distant galaxies, speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy.

Two spiral galaxies take the shape of a colorful beaded mask that sits above the nose. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller, taking up a little over a quarter of the view. The galaxy at right, NGC 2207, takes up half the view, with its spiral arms reaching the edges. IC 2163 has a bright orange core, with two prominent spiral arms that rotate counter clockwise and become straighter towards the ends, the left side extending almost to the edge. Its arms are a mix of pink, white, and blue, with an area that takes the shape of an eyelid appearing whitest. NGC 2207 has a very bright core. Overall, it appears to have larger, thicker spiral arms that spin counter clockwise. This galaxy also contains more and larger blue areas of star formation that poke out like holes from the pink spiral arms. In the middle, the galaxies’ arms appear to overlap. The edges show the black of space, including extremely distant galaxies that look like orange and red smudges, and a few foreground stars.

A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is small white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s center, but it is tightly limited to the core. The rings feature colors of deep red and orange and highlight filaments of dust around cavernous black bubbles.

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I am teaching natural resource economics at the undergraduate level this semester and I assigned this blog post as a class reading on discussion about climate policy and market incentives.

Welcome. This may be useful, including the section on job-market resources.
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This is a wonderful resource. Thank you for creating it and sharing.

I couldn’t deal with the job market and what Twitter has become. This is a lovely alternative.

Joined bluesky today and it’s giving retro Twitter vibes circa 2010. I love it here!