Recent trends suggest that India might very well be at the “tipping point” of the transition in its agriculture-dependent population. A large proportion of the youth in the countryside are trying to sever their links from farming. The paper attempts to identify the drivers of this process of...

Recent trends suggest that India might very well be at the "tipping point" of the transition in its agriculture-dependent population. A large proportion of the youth in the countryside are trying to severe their links from farming. The paper attempts to identify the drivers of this process of...

We solve a natural inverse problem for transition probabilities for Markov chains on rooted trees using hitting time distribution for leaves. Our solution is algorithmic and the natural statistics associated to our algorithm are consistent.