⚠️ Disclaimer: This is my personal account. Views expressed here are my own and not those of my employer(s).

I’m Francis Tsiboe, Ph.D., Senior Research Economist & Program Leader at the Agricultural Risk Policy Center (ARPC) | North Dakota State University.

🔎 About Me

• 🏢 Applied microeconomist specializing in risk management & U.S. agricultural policy
• 📈 Research: actuarial updates in Federal Crop Insurance, farm safety-nets, and policy evaluation
• 🔭 Projects:
  • 80% → Building an open-source U.S. farm-policy simulator
  • 20% → Research on agricultural productivity in Ghana
• 👯 Open to collaborations on FCIP, PLC, ARC, and broader U.S. farm safety-net policies
• 🌱 Currently sharpening my Python skills alongside R/Stata/SQL
• ⚡ Fun fact: proud dog lover 🐶

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🧭 Explore

• 📚 Publications: Risk Management: my publications organized by broad topic area, each linked to its publicly available version (journal DOI, USDA-ERS, or ARPC).
• 📝 Working Papers: pre-prints and works in progress (PDFs hosted in this repo).
• 📦 Software: public and in-development R packages for agricultural risk and policy analysis.
• 🔁 Replication Packages: code and data to reproduce my published studies.
• 📊 Research Metrics: live citation counts, h-index, and i10-index from Google Scholar.