How we measure determines what we get.

Three glasses of water with 1, 30 and 180 salt grains above them, labelled 3 g/L, 3% and 3 M. A dashed line shows all three water levels are identical.

Three ways of saying 3. The same water, 58× the salt.

Chandrakant Agme

I am a Research Support Specialist I at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, where I work with John Hoddinott and Joanna Upton on food safety, security, and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. I’m also a coordinator for NEUDC 2026.

The common thread in my research is how measurement choices — food security indicators, comparison groups, targeting rule, instrumental variables — determine the conclusions we reach. I work with high-frequency food security panel data from Malawi, Ethiopia, and Madagascar; RCT data I helped collect in Madagascar; and the World Bank’s LSMS-ISA.

Before Cornell, I completed an MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Arizona, working with Anna Josephson, Jeffrey Michler, George Frisvold, and Timothy Finan.

chandrakantagme@cornell.edu
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