Prof Divyanshu Jain is an Assistant Professor at Plaksha. Before his doctoral training, he completed an MBA at IIM Ahmedabad and worked in the Investment Banking division at PwC. He teaches applied microeconomics with sports data, and investments and valuations. More details are available on his personal website.
Prof Jain studies organizational, education, labor, and sports economics. His work uses quasi-experimental methods and rich administrative data to examine incentives, performance, and policy-relevant questions.
Areas of work:
- Organizational economics
- Education and labor economics
- Sports economics
- Gender gaps in science education
- Monitoring precision and performance
- Gender gaps in science education
- The role of monitoring precision in performance
- The economics of sports