Raahil Madhok on the Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff in India
Ideas of India · Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Show Notes
This episode is the second installment of a series in which Shruti speaks with doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars about their research as they enter the job market and the world of academia. In this episode, Shruti talks with Raahil Madhok about his job market paper, "The Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff in India's Forests." They discuss the effects of different types of infrastructure projects, state capacity, the Forest Rights Act, bird-watching and much more. Madhok is a Ph.D. candidate in the Food and Resource Economics Group at the Faculty of Land and Food systems at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on environmental and development economics.
Recorded September 7th, 2022
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