Research team
Bio

Economist, France.
Arnaud Natal is an economist affiliated with the Economic department (BSE) of the University of Bordeaux in France and the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP). He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Bordeaux in December 2023. The aim of his doctoral thesis was to analyse household debt in rural South India, and in particular its interaction with labour and cognition. Arnaud was an international volunteer at the French Institute of Pondicherry between September 2022 and August 2023. He was in charge of local ODRIIS activities and responsible for compiling and managing the databases.
Contact: arnaud.natal@ifpindia.org
Publications with NEEMSIS datasets
- Ten Years in Rural Tamil Nadu: Socio-Economic, Labour and Migration Trends from an Original Longitudinal Household Survey
- For Money Can’t Buy Me Love? The Political Economy of Marriages Over Two Decades in Tamil Nadu, South India
- Locus of control, social identity and indebtedness in South India
- Surviving Debt and Survival Debt in Times of Lockdown