Jay Kulkarni

Experience

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  Science Gallery International

  Nov 2019 - Jan 2020

  Mediator
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  Jharconnect

  Jul 2020 - Dec 2020

  Volunteer

  Tasked to help migrant workers access entitlements (food and job-security) during India’s migrant-worker crisis.Successfully guided 46 workers apply for ration (food) cards and job cards (MGNREGA). Headed a team of seven to assist workers with loan applications.Gained insights on the functioning of local administration in rural India.

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  Science Gallery Bengaluru

  Aug 2020 - Aug 2020

  Mediator
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  Seva Mandir

  May 2021 - Jun 2021

  Research Intern

  Primary Survey | Impact Analysis of Seva Mandir's intervention | Insights into rural political economy

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  Centre for Sustainable Employment

  Jun 2022 - Dec 2022

  Research Assistant

  Tasked with the responsibilities of a research assistant, for exploratory project “Why the Pandemic’s impact on Indian Incomes was not progressive”. Data analysis in R, documented results and code, presented findings weekly, discussed estimation techniques.

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  Università Bocconi | LEAP - Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Research Assistant

  I was selected in the LEAP Internship Program. A new skill I learnt was to do ‘fuzzy matching’ of data in Stata. I further used the ‘LEDA’ package in R, which was specifically designed to match ethnic data-sets in Africa (relevant for the project). Using the LEDA package made me understand the basics of Object Oriented Programming. I also learnt QGIS to handle spatial data and attended workshops on research methods for development economics.

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  Università Bocconi

  Jun 2024 - now

  Research Assistant

  I am presently working at the ICRIOS research centre on a project on lobbying and public procurement in the European Union. I am creating a dataset by web scraping publicly available contracts information from the TED website.