Biography

Dr. Manini Ojha is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University since 2018. She is also a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability, Monash Business School. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, Texas, United States in 2018. Prior to joining SMU, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University. She received an M.A in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a B.A. from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. Her research has been published in journals like Economic Modelling, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Development Studies, Economics and Human Biology, amongst others.

Her areas of research interest lie in the fields of Applied Microeconometrics, Empirical Development Economics, Economics of the Households, Economics of Education, Economics of Gender, and Labour Economics. Her current research focuses on household dynamics and gender differences, domestic violence; health and educational outcomes. She is also interested in addressing questions relating to how government policies affect household and individual behaviour. She teaches courses on Statistics, Econometrics and Applied Econometrics and Development Economics.