Sanjay Jain Explained

Sanjay Jain
Nationality:	British
Institution:	University of Oxford
Field:	Development economics
Alma Mater:	Princeton University
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Repec Prefix:	f
Repec Id:	pja226
Notes:	Thesis Essays in the economics of the informal sector: the role of information and institutions in product, labor, and credit markets. (1995)

Sanjay Jain is a senior fellow at the University of Oxford with research interest in development economics.^[1] He was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2009. Before he was an assistant professor of economics and international affairs at the George Washington University from 1994 to 2001 and a lecturer in the department of economics at the Princeton University from 1993 to 1994.^[2]

Education

He obtained his PhD in economics from the Princeton University in 1995,^[3] M.A. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and B.A. (Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi in 1986. He did his schooling in Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi.

Research interest

• Development Economics
• Political Economy
• Applied Microeconomic Theory

Publications

• Jain . Sanjay . Symbiosis vs. crowding-out: the interaction of formal and informal credit markets in developing countries . . 59 . 2 . 419–444 . 10.1016/S0304-3878(99)00019-X . August 1999 .
• Jain . Sanjay . Mansuri . Ghazala . A little at a time: the use of regularly scheduled repayments in microfinance programs . . 72 . 1 . 253–279 . 10.1016/S0304-3878(03)00076-2 . October 2003 .
• Jain . Sanjay . Banerji . Arup . Quality dualism . . 84 . 1 . 234–250 . 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.09.010 . September 2007 .
• Jain . Sanjay . Project assistance versus budget support: an incentive-theoretic analysis of aid conditionality . Review of World Economics . 143 . 4 . 694–719 . 10.1007/s10290-007-0128-6 . 40441159 . December 2007 . 154162854 .
• Jain . Sanjay . Mukand . Sharun W. . Redistributive promises and the adoption of economic reform . . 93 . 1 . 256–264 . 10.1257/000282803321455269 . 3132172 . March 2003 . Pdf.
• Jain . Sanjay . Mukand . Sharun W. . The economics of high-visibility terrorism . European Journal of Political Economy . 20 . 2 . 479–494 . 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2004.02.001 . June 2004 .

Reprinted as:

• • Jain . Sanjay . Ramdas . Kamalini . Up or out—or stay put? Product positioning in an evolving technology environment . . 14 . 3 . 362–376 . 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2005.tb00030.x . September 2005 .
• Jain . Sanjay . Majumdar. Sumon . State Capacity, Redistributive Compensation, and the Political Economy of Economic Policy Reform . . 42 . 462–273 . March 2016 . 10.1016/j.iref.2015.10.025 .
• Jain . Sanjay . Jonasson . Jonas . Pauphilet . Jean . Ramdas . Kamalini . Robust combination testing: methods and application to COVID-19 detection . . June 2023 . 10.1287/mnsc.2023.4826 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sanjay Jain, Economics Faculty, University of Cambridge . 2024-04-07.
2. Web site: Sanjay Jain, Research Fellow, IZA . 10 March 2011.
3. Ph.D . Jain . Sanjay . 1995 . Essays in the economics of the informal sector: the role of information and institutions in product, labor, and credit markets . Princeton University. 33250875.