Bruhan Konda is a PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University where he is currently working on the effect of caste divisions and heterogeneous benefits on the public good provision in India. He employs lab-in-field experiments for his study. He has also been involved in the project UTFI (Underground Taming of Floods for irrigation) led by International Water Management Institute (IWMI). His tasks involve evaluating the role of social divisions on the collective action and sustenance of the project. Additionally, he used to work as a researcher in the agricultural economics component at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

He holds two Master degrees on agricultural economics from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and on rural development from the University of Ghent, Belgium under the program International Masters of Science in Rural Development (IMRD). He was awarded with a prestigious Erasmus Mundus fellowship for talented non-EU students from European Union for his Master study, and then UNU-MERIT Fellowship for the Doctoral study at Maastricht University.

His areas of interest include agricultural economics, development economics, experimental economics and rural development. 

	Selected publications by Bruhan Konda
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Konda, Bruhan, Stephan Dietrich & Eleonora Nillesen, 2021, Does commonness fill the common fund? Experimental evidence on the role of identity for public good contributions in India, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2021-037
Konda, Bruhan, Mario Gonzalez Sauri, Robin Cowan, Yashodha Yashodha & Prakashan Chellattan Veettill, 2021, Social networks and agricultural performance: A multiplex analysis of interactions among Indian rice farmers, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2021-030