Quantitative Economics & Analytics

Rigorous economics.Higher impact, faster delivery.

Your quantitative team when you don't have one. Your expert backup when you do.

Research-grade quantitative economics in natural resource, agricultural and agri-food systems — impact evaluation, valuation, forecasting and benchmarking, delivered to the standard your clients and funders will test them against.

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Methods drawn from the peer-reviewed literature our economists publish in
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Research-active analysts — professors and senior fellows, engaged as each project demands
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Analysis, data pipelines and reporting delivered as one connected workstream
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Scoped and fixed-price — clear deliverables, no open-ended retainers
// What EconLab brings
Depth of method peer-reviewed

Research-grade quantitative economics

Impact evaluation, choice experiments, productivity benchmarking, forecasting, panel and experimental methods — applied to real decisions.

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Reliable pipelines automated

End-to-end data engineering

Entry, validation, analytics and reporting as one pipeline — less duplication, fewer errors, faster turnaround.

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Client-first delivery handover

Live tools & capability transfer

Interactive outputs your stakeholders actually use, and tools your team can operate once we step back.

The result: findings that hold up under scrutiny, and capability that stays in the organisation after the engagement ends.
// How we work

From first question to
decisions your clients trust

One connected workstream — design, data, analysis and engagement — so nothing is lost between the method and what the client actually sees.

01 // RESEARCH DESIGN

Problem framing & research design

We frame the question, design a theoretically-grounded method, and specify the data and analytical framework before anything is built.

Stakeholder scoping Method selection Data audit
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02 // DATA PIPELINE

Data collection, validation & processing

Modular pipelines from entry portals through automated validation to clean, analysis-ready data. Point-of-entry QA eliminates downstream errors.

Web portals Auto-validation Python / R pipelines
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03 // ANALYSIS

Rigorous quantitative analysis

Peer-reviewed methods applied to your data — evaluation, benchmarking, forecasting, valuation — chosen for theoretical validity and practical defensibility.

Econometrics Benchmarking Forecasting Valuation
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04 // ENGAGEMENT

Client-facing tools & reporting

Live, interactive results with automated reporting and stakeholder portals — outputs your clients engage with, not PDFs they file.

Live dashboards Auto-reports Client portals

What that means for your organisation

Every engagement is built so the value outlasts the invoice — the analysis is defensible, the pipeline keeps running, and your stakeholders can see the results for themselves.

Research-grade, at commercial pace

Methods from the peer-reviewed literature, delivered on project timelines rather than academic ones. Rigour is not the thing you trade away to move quickly.

Pipelines, not one-off answers

Analysis arrives as a documented, re-runnable pipeline your team owns. Next year's update is a re-run, not a rebuild — and the capability stays in your organisation.

Results your stakeholders can use

Interactive outputs and portals instead of a PDF that gets filed. When the people you're accountable to can explore the findings, the findings get acted on.

Silent or named — your call

Everything can be delivered white-label under your brand and domain, or with EconLab named as the specialist input. Some clients want the credential visible; others don't. Both work.

// What we do

Capabilities built on
decades of real expertise

Rigorous economic analysis joined to practical data engineering — insights that stand up to scrutiny, delivered through tools that keep working after we leave.

01 // Economic Insights

Quantitative Economic Analysis

Analysts with decades of experience across academia and industry, working from methods they publish and peer-review themselves.

Impact & investment analysis and evaluation
Productivity analysis & benchmarking
Time series & forecasting
Non-market valuation — conjoint analysis & choice experiments
Panel data methods
Experimental methods — lab, field & randomised trials
Benefit-cost analysis & policy review
Cohort, classification & latent class methods
Index methods, data aggregation and more
02 // Data Engineering

Modular Data Pipeline Support

Modular, automated pipelines from entry portal to analysis-ready data — less duplication, and your people freed for the work that needs them.

Web-based and spreadsheet-template data entry systems
Automated validation — logical, type and value-based checks at point of entry
Data collation, processing, storage and version control
Integrated analytics, forecasting and reporting modules
Auth-based access regimes and database integrations
Australian-based data hosting available
03 // Engagement Tools

Analytics Engagement & Reporting

Interactive, web-hosted engagement tools for your analytics outputs — a client-facing dashboard ready in days, not months.

Simple dashboards live within one day
Complex database-driven projects typically within 3–5 days
On-demand PDF reporting from templates — no analyst required
Fixed-price module approach — easy to scope and budget
White-label delivery under your own brand and domain
04 // Capability Transfer

Technical Training & Partnership

Targeted programs that build quantitative capacity inside your team — so the capability stays with you and our role shifts toward advisory.

Structured training in quantitative methods and analytics tools
Team-based coding practices — git, reproducible pipelines, code review
Independent review of models, code and results
On-call technical support — ticket-based, no retainer required
Analytics wikis and decision-support documentation for your team
// Expertise

A curated network
of leading specialists

Deep specialist expertise, accessible on demand and calibrated precisely to each project.

Researchers represent a largely untapped pool of specialist expertise — analysts who have spent careers developing the methods in agricultural economics, environmental valuation, water policy and agri-food systems that commercial work now depends on.

EconLab has built a network of credentialed analysts across Australian and international institutions. When a project needs specialist depth, we match from that pool through a structured process — precisely the expertise the problem demands, and no more.

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Depth without lock-in. Specialists engage per project, so access scales with the problem rather than with headcount.
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Rare expertise, rapidly accessible. Murray–Darling water markets, Reef catchment economics, choice experiment design — our network reaches leaders in each.
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Right specialist, right project. A structured selection process matches expertise to problem, every time.
10s
of researchers across our associate network
$12m+
Total value of research and analytics projects delivered
4
Domain areas: agriculture, environment, water & natural resources, agri-food
>600%
Benefit-cost ratio demonstrated on data pipeline work at national scale
// Projects

Delivered at scale.
Across real programs.

Complex analytics, data pipeline and engagement projects delivered across agriculture, forestry and natural resource management.

// People

Team

Our core team - the people who coordinate and lead engagements

Dr Daniel GreggDG

Dr Daniel Gregg

Operations & Technology

Twenty years as a research economist in rural development, environmental valuation and productivity analysis. Daniel designs the delivery systems behind EconLab's work — data pipelines, analytics and reporting frameworks proven at national scale — and leads operations and technology.

Agri-food systems Productivity analysis Choice experiments Data pipelines
contact@econlab.com.au
Dr Megan StarMS

Dr Megan Star

Engagement, Partnerships & Agricultural Industries

Applied economist working on investment prioritisation, bio-economic modelling and the productivity–environment trade-offs of Australian agriculture — grazing systems, climate-variable production and Reef catchment management. Megan leads engagement and EconLab's agricultural industry work.

Investment analysis Bio-economic modelling NRM economics Grazing systems
Dr John KanduluJK

Dr John Kandulu

Impact, Government & Natural Resources

Senior research economist across government, NGO and private sectors, having led more than 35 research projects and secured over $3m in research funding. John's work spans impact evaluation, benefit-cost analysis, water policy and biosecurity, with particular depth in Murray–Darling Basin water markets.

Impact evaluation Benefit-cost analysis Water policy Murray–Darling Basin
// Associates

Associates

Research-active specialists who join projects where their expertise is exactly what the problem needs.

Prof. Iain FraserIF

Prof. Iain Fraser

University of Kent · Editor-in-Chief, Q Open

Professor of Agri-Environmental Economics and editor of a leading international journal in the field. Career spanning choice experiments, non-market valuation, agri-environmental contracts and applied econometrics, with prior positions at La Trobe, Imperial College and Manchester.

Choice experiments Non-market valuation Applied econometrics
Prof. Jeff ConnorJC

Prof. Jeff Connor

Adelaide University · AARES President, 2025

Professor of Water Economics specialising in integrated economic, environmental and social systems modelling. Fifteen years at CSIRO as economist and group leader advising the Murray–Darling Basin Authority and state agencies, with 85+ peer-reviewed publications.

Water economics Integrated modelling Climate & NRM

Plus our broader research network

Beyond our named associates, EconLab maintains a curated pool of researchers and domain economists across Australian and international institutions. When a project demands rare or specialised expertise, we draw on that network through a structured process — the right specialist, at the right time.

10s
of researchers across our associate network
4
Domain areas: agriculture, environment, water & natural resources, agri-food
35+
Major research projects led by our directors
Intl.
Network spans Australia, UK, Europe and beyond
// Get in touch

Tell us what you're
working on.

Working with us directly

Need specific, targeted input? We can scope it and get you moving.

Bring us into your work

We work alongside your team in bigger projects as your quant team, expert input or even to build capability within your org.

contact@econlab.com.au