Manini Ojha is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy of O.P. Jindal Global University. She completed her PhD in Economics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas in 2018. Before joining SMU, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University for three years. She received an MA in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a BA from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University.
Her areas of research interest lie in the fields of applied microeconometrics, empirical development economics, economics of households, education, gender, and labour economics. Her current research focuses on household dynamics and child health, women's reproductive and menstrual health, domestic violence, and education. She is also interested in addressing questions relating to how government policies affect household and individual behaviour. She teaches courses on statistics, econometrics, applied econometrics and empirical development economics.