⚠️ 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

• Google Scholar profile
• Working papers

📦 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
  • Low Participation and Untapped Benefits of Supplemental Crop Insurance in the United States.
• 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.