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Parijat Chakrabarti
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Sustainability and Development
Food Systems
Cross-cutting
Office
3575 Dana
Websites
About
Parijat Chakrabarti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
He is interested in how innovation ecosystems and market institutions can be designed to sustain long-term social and ecological well-being. For his doctoral work, he examined these questions in the context of food systems in East Africa as the region grapples with the effects of climate change, uneven globalization, and rapid technology uptake. In addition to his research, he has worked as a consultant or advisor for various development organizations including the World Bank, FSD Kenya, and the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics.
Parijat holds a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and a BA in Economics and Sociology from UC Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, he worked a number of jobs including: at a research unit at ETH Zürich, on a dairy farm in the Argentine pampas, and for a studio photographer back home in California.
Publications
Chakrabarti, Parijat. 2024. “How Inclusion Scales: From Marginal Effects to Systems Analysis in the Theory and Practice of Development.” In Sonia Taneja (Ed.), Proceedings of the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. (https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.46bp)
Chakrabarti, Parijat. 2024. “Making Markets Machine-Readable: Digital Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems in East Africa.” In Sonia Taneja (Ed.), Proceedings of the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. (https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.47bp)
Goldstein, Adam, Charlie Eaton, Amber Villalobos, Parijat Chakrabarti, Jeremy Cohen, and Katie Donnelly. 2023. “Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(4):86–111. (https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/9/4/86)
Wherry, Frederick F. and Parijat Chakrabarti. 2022. “Accounting for Credit.” Annual Review of Sociology 48(1):131-47. (https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-030320-114444)
Chakrabarti, Parijat and Margaret Frye. 2017. “A Mixed Methods Framework for Analyzing Text Data: Integrating Computational Techniques with Qualitative Methods.” Demographic Research 37(42):1351-1382. (https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/37/42)
Research
Many of our most pressing challenges such as adapting food systems to climate change, protecting biodiversity, and tempering entrenched inequality and polarization are characterized by complex interdependencies which standard management approaches do not well equip us to navigate. I work to develop new theories and methods for management within complex systems with a substantive focus on driving systems change for a more sustainable and humane economy.
Accolades
AOM OMT Best Dissertation Paper Award 2024
AOM ONE Best Dissertation Paper Award 2024
Twice nominated for the AOM William H. Newman Award for best overall dissertation paper 2024
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2020
UC Berkeley Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar 2009 - 2013
Education
Princeton University, PhD Sociology
Princeton University, MA Sociology
UC Berkeley, BA Economics & Sociology
Affiliations
Erb Institute
Ross School of Business
Sustainable Food Systems Initiative