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Manaswini Rao is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware. Her primary fields of interest are development economics, organisational economics, and the economics of institutions with a focus on legal and judicial institutions.

Her research can be classified into three major buckets - the role of frontline judiciary and broader dispute resolution institutions in the economic development process; collective action and coordination in improving agricultural productivity in the context of smallholder agricultural production; and structural transformation process of moving from agricultural production into urban and/or non-agricultural sectors from the lens of rural land inequality.