Preksha Jain Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Working with the Office of the Chief Economist, South Asia Region (SARCE) on projects around gender, informality, migration, and the digital economy in the South Asia Region.1. Digital Labor Platforms and Conditions of Work of Female Domestic Workers in Bangladesh (RCT): Co-managing the project on the ground (including coordination with partners, delivering trainings and capacity-building workshops, and overseeing implementation on the field), and co-leading the data cleaning, analysis, writing of the baseline paper, and preparation of presentations for dissemination2. Mobile Money and its Impacts on Poverty and Migration in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan (RCT): Supporting with ideation, scoping, contracting, survey instrument design, and preparation for launch of the long-run follow-up and external validity survey for a previously published study on impacts of mobile money on poor migrant households in Bangladesh3. Migration and the Road to Resilience (Report): Co-authored the Fall 2022 edition of the SAEF, co-leading the research, analysis, writing, and dissemination of the chapter on `COVID-19 and Migration in South Asia’

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Continued working with Prof. Tavneet Suri on producing the final results from the endline survey of the UBI project, among others.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Worked with Prof. Tavneet Suri, based at MIT Sloan School of Management on various projects around around digital finance, social protection, gender, and poverty alleviation1. Universal Basic Income (UBI) in Kenya (RCT): Involved in the questionnaire design, management of data collection, causal micro-econometric/statistical analysis, data visualization, drafting of reports and dissemination documents from an RCT covering 8,500+ households in 295 villages (working paper)2. Agricultural Technology in Africa: Compiled & analyzed secondary data, and conducted an extensive lit. review to understand the drivers of and heterogeneity in the stagnation of agricultural productivity and constraints to technology adoption in the African continent and ways to alleviate them (published in the JEP)3. Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in Kenya: Used a differences-in-differences strategy to study the impact of an increase in the density of M-PESA agents on women's socio-economic outcomes, empowerment, and gender-based violence; performed a dyadic analysis to understand the difference in perceptions of women's empowerment between male and female members of the same household

New Haven, Ct, Us

Worked on a project proposal around the economic geography of innovation in India for Prof. Fabrizio Zilibotti and Prof. Michael Peters

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

1. Private Equity Group: Supported clients such as PE funds, institutional investors, and firms across industries (pharmaceuticals, electronics, software, retail, healthcare etc.) during multiple stages of the investment process:a. Deal generation: i. Identification of investment foci through sector profiling and target screeningii. Assessment of current and future macroeconomic industry trends, effects of possible disruptions and scope of capitalizing on opportunities, with the objective of generating the maximum possible value in the minimum possible timeb. Due diligence (commercial and operational): i. Benchmarking targets with competitors to understand growth potentialii. Analysis of potential synergies to evaluate revenue generation, and cost reduction opportunities2. Organization Practice: Involved in the end-to-end deployment of the flagship product – Org Navigator – a diagnostic tool to help clients assess and identify how to improve their organizational performance, primarily:a. Quantitative assessment of organizational strengths and weaknessesb. Performance benchmarking against a proprietary database of 1,700 companiesc. Providing executives and decision makers with a clear view on how to allocate scarce organizational resources to achieve superior business performance3. General Pool: Apart from a few miscellaneous projects, most significantly worked on finding ways to improve scores and ranking of Bain on a third-party supplier sustainability platform, which assesses companies based on policies, actions and results on 4 fronts - Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Fair Business Practices, and Sustainable Procurement. Helped draft and publish Bain's Supplier Sustainability and Environmental Policy on the global website.

Gurugram, Haryana, In

Contributed to various ongoing projects as a trainee with the Research and Knowledge Management (KM) team.1. Actively involved in researching for, writing and editing BMR's quarterly report titled 'Building a Stronger Nation: India's Infrastructure Story'2. Provided research assistance and inputs for an article titled 'How Bankruptcy law will curb bank NPAs', published in the Financial Express3. Sanitised crucial client documents and created document taxonomy for the KM portal4. Updated multiple databases to enhance and broaden relevance of the portal5. Provided valuable insights and suggestions on how to improve the design as well as ease of accessibility of the portal

New Delhi, Delhi, In

1. Supported different projects within the Urbanisation team2. Updated a paper on inflation in the Indian rural-urban context3. Coded online questionnaires for surveys to be done on tablets using the Open Data Kit platform4. Created new databases for the Urban team5. Summarised book reports

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Public Policy

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International And Development Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Honours, Economics

B.A. (Honours), Economics

High School, Science (Pcm) With Economics