Bradley Franklin

Greater Los Angeles Area United States

Post-Doctoral Fellow at International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Education

I'm an economist who specializes in mathematical programming models of agricultural and water resource economics policy issues. At IWMI, I have developed a model of Indian agricultural production focused on groundwater use which may be used to analyze how changes in water supplies and policies affect agricultural production as well as water and energy use. In related work, I am focusing on the adoption of solar irrigation pumps and how to incentivize farmers to limit over-pumping groundwater using electricity buy-back programs. Before joining IWMI, I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Riverside and spent one year as a visiting researcher at CSIRO in Australi...