Dr. Mrinalini Jha
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Dr. Mrinalini Jha
Associate Professor
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, (Centre for Sustainable Employment at the Azim Premji University);
Ph.D (University of Delhi)
Mrinalini is interested in issues of inequality, poverty, and structural transformation in the Indian economy. She is an Assistant Professor in the Jindal Global University. She completed her PhD from the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi. Her doctoral research focused on the economics of discrimination and unequal opportunities in economic well-being, and their impact on growth. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Employment at the Azim Premji University. Her post-doctoral work revolved around documenting the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. She was a prime contributor to the income, inequality, and poverty analysis in the State of Working India 2021 report. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Delhi, and at Azim Premji University. Her current research interests include wage polarization over the skill spectrum of workers in the Indian labour market, along with its intersection with other social identities. Beyond Economics, she is also interested in the related zones of sociology and politics of caste and gender.
- Jha, Mrinalini. (Forthcoming 2022). ‘Workers on the Edge’. State of Finance in India – 2020-2021. Economic Research Foundation, Focus on the Global South, and Centre for Financial Accountability.
- Jha, Mrinalini, and Rosa Abraham. (Forthcoming 2022). ‘An Unequal Recovery – The Income and Employment fallout of the Pandemic’. Contextualizing the COVID pandemic in India: A Development Perspective. Springer
- Jha, Mrinalini, and Amit Basole. ‘Labour incomes in India: A comparison of PLFS and CMIE- CPHS data’. Working Paper. Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, February 2022. https://cse.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Jha_Basole_PLFS_CPHS_Labour_Incomes.pdf
- Jha, Mrinalini, ‘Agriculture, Development Planning and Liberalisation in India: Notes on a Long Term View’, Social Scientist, 562-656, March-June 2020.
- Jha, Mrinalini. (2022, 14 January). बजट में कोरोना से निपटने की तैयारी के साथ इससे हुए नुकसान से लोनों को उभारने का करें उपाय I Dainik Jagran. https://www.jagran.com/editorial/apnibaat-along-with-the-preparations-to-deal-with-corona-take-measures-to-rescue-people-from-the-damage-caused-by-it-in-the-budget-jagran-special-22378923.html
- Jha, Mrinalini. (2021, 15 December). ‘How household incomes were affected by Covid’. Hindustan Times. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/how-household-incomes-were-affected-by-covid-101639519177238.html
- Jha, Mrinalini, and Rahul Lahoti. (2021, 1 September). ‘Covid-19: Impact on income inequality in India’. Ideas for India. https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/social-identity/covid-19-impact-on-income-inequality-in-india.html
- Jha, Mrinalini, and Rosa Abraham. (2021, 27 July). Mere growth in a sector doesn’t translate to benefits for workers. The Indian Express. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/covid-economic-crisis-pandemic-sectors-workers-benefits/
- Jha, Mrinalini, and Rosa Abraham. (2021, 15 July). Reading between pandemic’s economic shockwaves: Among worst hit are our teachers and small business owners. Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/reading-between-pandemics-economic-shockwaves-among-worst-hit-are-our-teachers-and-small-business-owners/
- Jha, Mrinalini, Amit Basole. (2021, May 17). गरीबों की मदद से ही सुधरेगी अर्थव्यवस्था: तहस नहस होती अर्थव्यवस्था और बर्बादी के कगार पर खड़े लोग एक ही सिक्के के दो पहलू हैं । Dainik Jagran. https://www.jagran.com/editorial/apnibaat-economy-will-improve-with-help-of-poor-ruined-economy-and-people-on-verge-of-ruin-are-two-sides-of-same-coin-21650379.html
- Contributing author in State of Working India 2021 – One Year of Covid-19. https://cse.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SWI2021_FullReport_1June.pdf
- Lahoti, Rahul, Mrinalini Jha, Amit Basole. (2021, January 19). ‘What 2020 did to India’s inequality’. Mint. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/what-2020-did-to-india-s-inequality-11610982667419.html
- Invited for an interview on Bloomberg TV to talk about the rising inequalities in in post- CovidIndia. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-04-21/azim-premji-university-research-fellow-mrinalini-jha-on-rising-inequality-in-india-video
- Invited on a panel organized by Centre for Financial Accountability (CENFA) and NewsClick on ‘What has “recovery” actually meant for the people?’ moderated by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTRWLeSywds
- Invited for a talk on the Economics Nobel 2021 at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQaJFBBwzqc
- Appeared for an interview on DB LIVE to talk about the findings from my co-authored report, State of Working India 2021 – One Year of Covid-19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYuc_IRVt5M
- Invited as a group mentor and presenter at the Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty,
Development, and Globalization, organized by Azim Premji University (APU) and the Institute
for New Economic Thinking (INET) in July 2022. - Presenter at the Association for Heterodox Economics Conference 2022 held at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. - Was a resource person for a lecture organized by Hansraj College, University of Delhi on March
28th, 2022. - Was a resource person at Research Bootcamp organized by Kirori Mal College, University of
Delhi on February 22nd, 2022. - Was a resource person for a lecture organized under the IQAC by Deshbandhu College,
University of Delhi on February 7th, 2022. - Was a resource person for a lecture organized by Maitreyi College, University of Delhi on
January 6th, 2022. - Presented a paper, ‘Who was Impacted and How? Poverty and Inequality in Covid times in
India’ at the Delhi School of Economics in October 2021. - Selected for the 2021 LIS Virtual Summer Workshop organized by LIS Cross-National Data
Centre in Luxembourg. - Presenter in the Winter School 2020 organized by The Econometric Society jointly with Centre
for Development Economics and Department of Economics at Delhi School of Economics. - Presenter in the Fifth SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference (SAEC), held in Dhaka,
Bangladesh in February 2020. - Presenter in the UNU-WIDER 2019 conference on Transforming Economies – for Better Jobs,
in partnership with UNESCAP, held in Bangkok, Thailand from 11-13 September 2019. - Presenter in the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Asia Convening 2019, organized by the Institute
for New Economic Thinking, held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 12-14 August 2019. - Participated in the first Patna Summer School organized by the International Growth Centre
(IGC) held from 1-6 August 2019. - Participated and presented in the Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development,
and Globalization, organized by Azim Premji University (APU) and the Institute for New
Economic Thinking (INET) in June 2019. - Presenter at the Fifth International Conference on South Asian Economic Development
organized by the Faculty of Economics, South Asian University in February 2019. - Presenter at the Conversation on Research: IGIDR PhD Colloquium 2018 at Indira Gandhi
Institute of Development Research. - Presenter at CAS Young Scholars’ Seminar 2018 at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
- Presenter at the Delhi Winter School 2018 organized by The Econometric Society jointly with
Centre for Development Economics and Department of Economics at Delhi School of
Economics.
- Referee for Indian Economic Review, Empirical Economics, Journal of South Asian
Development. - Member, Internal Review Committee, APU External Grants 2021, 2022.
- Judged the paper presentation competition in September 2020, ‘Health through an Economics
Lens : Understanding the Issues’ at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi.