⚠️ 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 calculators and tables used in FCIP Policy Acceptance and Storage System (PASS)
- rfcipCalibrate — R Tools for calibrating yield and preference models for farm-level Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) experience
- rfcipCalibrateExtended — Extended tools for rfcipCalibrate
- rfcipReSim — R Modular Simulator for FCIP Reinsurance Outcomes
- 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
🔁 Replication Packages
- HiddenSafetynet2025 — Hidden Safety Net of Underutilized Supplemental Insurance in US Agriculture
- fcipRateRevisions — Replication package for studies examining the impacts of rating revisions in United States agricultural insurance
- fcipRevealedPreference —
- GHAgricProductivityLab —