BHAVYA HASIJA

Result-oriented professional with a strong academic background in Economics, holding both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. My rigorous coursework and involvement in Diverse projects have sharpened my abilities in in-depth analysis research, data-driven analysis and effective problem solving.

• Cleared UGC National Eligibility Test (NET)
• Cleared Business Economics exam (CB2) conducted by Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFOA)
• Cleared Actuarial common entrance test exam conducted by Institute of Actuaries of India (IA1)
• Secured AIR 31 in entrance exam of M.Sc ECONOMICS at Shiv Nadar University; offered teaching assistantship for meritorious performance in entrance exam
• Offered admission for securing rank in top 40 students in IIFT MA ECONOMICS (World Economy)
• Secured 10/10 SGPA in 6 subjects (including Statistical Methods for Economics, Introductory Econometrics) in graduation

Teaching Assistant, Shiv Nadar University, 2021

• Worked as a teaching Assistant of the Course ‘Logics and Scientific Methods’.
• Mentored more than 200 students on topics like sets, logics, implications, summation operators, data tabulation by conducting online sessions and additional doubt sessions through MS Teams. Evaluated all the assignments, end term exam of the students and used excel to streamline the process.

1. An Instrumental Variable Analysis on The Maternal Divide:

• Assessing the Influence of Total Number of Children on Women’s Workforce Participation in Diverse Settings using NFHS, Fifth Round, 2023.
• Used Gender of first as instrumental variable along with district fixed effect on R Software to observe rural-urban as well as state wise analysis, observed positive relation between the main variables.

2. R Project, 2022

• Conducted primary survey of 177 students and developed regression models to determine the main constituents affecting monthly expenditure of a student like residence, travelling expenditure, family size etc.
• Analysed research data using multiple R-squared, other statistical tools and packages like readxl, dplyr through R software.

3. Applied Econometrics Project, 2019

• Conducted cross sectional study to determine the share of population suffering from mental health problems in year 2017 for 72 countries through GRETL Software.
• Built self reported life satisfaction as proxy variable for positivity and dummy variable for developed and developing countries, checked for Heteroscedasticity.

4.An Evaluation of the Performance of Atal Pension Yojana in the Unorganized sector, 2019

• The research paper was selected in top 12 papers to get published in the Journal of Ramjas College.
• Conducted primary research with respondents from Delhi and Noida.
• Visualisation done to check the awareness of the scheme and to check characteristics of people (like literacy rate, age, family size etc) who were aware and enrolled in it using pie-charts, histogram etc through excel.

Cleared UGC NET Exam.