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Aleksandr Michuda

Email: am2497@cornell.edu

Website: amichuda.github.io

Github: github.com/amichuda

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandr-michuda

Appointments

2021+ Assistant Research Professor Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society, Cornell University

Education

2021 Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis PhD
2014 Economics CUNY Hunter College BA/MA
2014 Philosophy CUNY Hunter College BA

Publications and Working Papers

Development Economics

Vosti, Stephen, Katherine Adams, Aleksandr Michuda, Hanqi Luo, Demewoz Woldegebreal, Victoria Chou, Adrienne Clermont, Ismael Teta, Alex Ndjebayi, Jules Guintang, Reina Engle-Stone. “Selecting Micronutrient Intervention Programs to Save Lives: Evidence From Cameroon” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences forthcoming

Gupta, Anubhab, Heng Zhu, Miki Khanh Doan, Aleksandr Michuda, and Binoy Majumder. “Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown in a Remittance‐dependent Region.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Working Papers

Michuda, Aleksandr, Cristina Chiarella, Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas, and Juan Sebastian Correa. “Genetic Dilution erodes productivity: Exploring farmers’ low adoption levels of improved maize in Ethiopia.” (2022)

Michuda, Aleksandr. “Rural-Urban Risk Sharing Networks: Uber Driver Labor Supply Responses To Shocks In Uganda.” (2022) Submitted

Doan, Miki Khanh, Aleksandr Michuda, Heng Zhu, Anubhab Gupta, and Binoy Majumder. “Livelihood Strategies in a Climate-change Vulnerable Region.” (2022)

Political Economy

Working Papers

Michuda, Aleksandr, and Michael Kevane. “Classification into ethnic groups in Burkina Faso using names and localities.” (2022)

Bird, Samuel S.; Michuda, Aleksandr. “Measuring Ethnicity and Estimating its Effects on Voting at Scale: Evidence from Uganda.” (2022)

Applied Econometrics and Software

Michuda, A., Ortiz-Becerra, K., Adams, K., Jarvis, M., Somda, H., Arnold, C., … & Vosti, S. (2022). minimod: An Open Source Python Package to Evaluate the Cost Effectiveness of Micronutrient Intervention Programs. Current Developments in Nutrition, 6(Supplement_1), 776-776.

Cabanillas, Oscar Barriga, Jeffrey D. Michler, Aleksandr Michuda, and Emilia Tjernström. “Fitting and interpreting correlated random-coefficient models using Stata.” Stata Journal 18, no. 1 (2018): 159-173.

Working Papers

Tjernström, Emilia, Dalia Ghanem, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas, Travis J. Lybbert, Jeffrey D. Michler, and Aleksandr Michuda. “A Group Random Coefficient Approach to Modeling Heterogeneous Returns to Technology Adoption.” (2021)

Agricultural Economics

Michuda, Aleksandr, Rachael E. Goodhue, Mark Hoffmann, and Steven A. Fennimore. “Predicting Net Returns of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Following Soil Disinfestation with Steam or Steam Plus Additives.” Agronomy 11, no. 1 (2021): 149.

Michuda, Aleksandr, Rachael Goodhue, Karen Klonsky, Graeme Baird, Lucinda Toyama, Margherita Zavatta, Joji Muramoto, and Carol Shennan. “The economic viability of suppressive crop rotations for the control of verticillium wilt in organic strawberry production.” Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 43, no. 9 (2019): 984-1008.

Michuda, Aleksandr, Rachael Goodhue, Joji Muramoto, and Carol Shennan. “Crop Rotations Can Increase Net Returns in Organic Strawberry and Vegetable Production Systems.” ARE Update 20(6)(2017): 5-8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.

Book Chapters

Carter, Michael R., and Aleksandr Michuda. “The Distribution of Productive Assets and the Economics of Rural Development and Poverty Reduction.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics, pp. 377-408. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019.

Languages and Skills

English: Fluent

Russian: Fluent

Ukrainian: Basic Knowledge

Technical Skills

Python, GAMS, Stata, LaTeX, R, GitHub, Bash

Past Experience

Consultant MINIMOD - Optimal Nutritional Interventions across Space and Time January 2020 - July 2022
Data Science Intern Uber September 2019 - December 2019
Catalyst BITSS (Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences) July 2017 - Present
Research Assistant UC Davis - Disease Suppressive Crop Rotations July 2016 - September 2019

Peer Review

Conferences

NEUDC 2022 Genetic Dilution erodes productivity: Exploring farmers’ low adoption levels of improved maize in Ethiopia
Pacdev 2022 Urban Labor Supply Responses to Rural Drought Shocks on Rideshare Platforms.
NEUDC 2021 Urban Labor Supply Responses to Rural Drought Shocks on Rideshare Platforms.
BITSS RT2 2020 Dynamic Documents with Jupyter Notebooks
AAEA Meetings 2019 Evaluating a Systems Approach to Suppressive Crop Rotations in Strawberry Production
AAEA Meetings 2018 Political Contributions and the Case of South African Land Reform
AAEA Meetings 2017 The Economic Viability of Suppressive Crop Rotations in Organic Strawberry Production
Empirically Estimating the Impact of Weather on Agriculture
EEA Conference 2014 The Russian Mir and Agrarian Transition
CUNY’s UGRC 2013 Large Frontiers and Coercion: An Economic Perspective

Scholarships and Awards

Summer 2022 NSF OSP: 142678
Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics and Social Sciences (CRRESS)
Summer 2022 Dyson AEP Faculty Seed Grant
The Surname-Ethnicity Connection: A Validation Exercise
Spring 2022 Dyson AEP Faculty Seed Grant
Climate induced soil salinity impacts on agricultural productivity and livelihood diversification in the Sundarbans, India
Winter 2021 (CGIAR) SPIA small grant for agricultural innovations in Ethiopia
Fall 2014 - Spring 2016 Steindler Fellowship
Spring 2017 Henry A. Jastro Grant
Fall 2017 BITSS Catalyst Grant
2017 Graduate Student Association President
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