⚠️ 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 🐶
🔗 Connect
📚 Publications
📦 R Packages - Public 🔓
- USFarmSafetyNetLab — Analytical tools and resources dedicated to United States agricultural safety net programs.
- fcipDemand — Tools to estimate Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) demand
- rexcelbridge — Vendor-neutral helpers to evaluate Excel formulas from R via COM automation
📦 R Packages - Private 🔒
- rfcipCalcPass — R implementations of FCIP premium and indemnity calculators.
- rfcipCalibrate — R Tools for calibrating yield and preference models for farm-level FCIP experience.
- rfcipCalibrateExtended — Extended tools for rfcipCalibrate.
- rfcipReSim — R Modular Simulator for FCIP Reinsurance Outcomes.
- rfcipPRF — Tools for RMA Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage (PRF) Insurance Data and Policy Analysis.
- rkfmaData — Tools for Kansas Farm Management Data Bank.
- rAgroClimate — Agroclimatic and Environmental Datasets for Agricultural Research.
- arpcPriceBasis — R Tools for Price and basis by Commodity and County/elevator.
- arpcCost — R Tools to calibrate and harmonize agricultural production costs by commodity and county.
- arpcFCIP — Simulate and Benchmark Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) Outcomes.
🔁 Replication Packages
- HiddenSafetynet2025
- fcipRateRevisions
- Actuarial Impacts of Rating Revisions in United States Agricultural Insurance.
- Actuarial Updates Cut Taxpayer Cost in Subsidized Agricultural Insurance.
- The Effect of Actuarial Updates on Private to Public Risk Transfers in Agricultural Insurance.
- fcipRevealedPreference
- Pseudo-Revealed Calibration of Farmer Preferences Over Agricultural Insurance Products.
- SafetyNetBasisRisk
- Quantifying Basis Risk in The United States Farm Safety Net Programs.
- GHAgricProductivityLab
- Production Gaps among Disabled Farmers is Associated with Limited Technology.
- Heterogeneous Effects of Farmer Education on Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency in Ghana.
- Digging into the Linkages Between Resource Extraction and Farm Performance.
- Financial Inclusion and Credit Impacts on Crop Production in Ghana.
- Land Ownership Appears Neither Necessary nor Sufficient for Superior Agricultural Performance in Ghana.