Sonia Bhalotra
Professor of Economics
Department
of Economics
University of Bristol
8 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TN, UK
Sonia’s departmental
webpage
Email: s.bhalotra@bristol.ac.uk
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Sameera
videos: Beach1, Beach2, Parineeta-song1, Nurseryrhyme1, Nurseryrhyme2
My CMPO
webpage has my research organised by them (this needs updating)
Links work better at this
page: https://sites.google.com/site/profsoniabhalotra/
I am organising a workshop on
Public
Service Reform in Developing Countries on 3-4 April 2012.
Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oxford (2011-2012)
Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, University of Oxford (2011-2012)
Current Teaching
Unit Director and Lecturer, MSc Applied Economics (with Senay Sekollu)
Unit Director and Lecturer, MSc Topics in Development Economics (with Jahirul Islam)
Intercalated BSc in International Health (for medical students)
Doctoral Training Centre: Global Political Economy: Transformations and Policy
Analysis (global health)
In Oxford:
Module of Human Capital for MSc/MPhil
students (with Andrew Zeitlin)
PhD Students: Wu Yichao (2010-), Stewart Kettle (2011-), Alpi Jain Patel (2011-).
Recently completed PhDs: Sam Rawlings, Marcela Umana-Aponte
Research Areas and Interests: Development Economics, Health, Education, Demography, Public Economics,
Economics of the Family, Political Economy, Labour
Economics.
Themes: Policy evaluation in developing countries, political economy of public service provision, gender, health and survival in poor countries and in the history of richer countries, early life interventions, social mobility and intergenerational transmission.
Publications and Mimeographs
The ordering below is (A) publications since 2008, (B) papers submitted or close to being submitted, (C) selected work in progress (D) other publications and (E) other mimeographs.
Publications Since 2008
War and Stature: Growing up During the
Nigerian Civil War
Forthcoming May 2012, American Economic Review P&P. IZA
discussion paper 6914, December 2011. With R Akresh
(Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), M. Leone (Sussex) and U. Osili
(Indiana).
Gradients of the Intergenerational
Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Forthcoming (2012), Review of Economics and Statistics. With S
Rawlings (Bristol)
Presented: Oxford (March 2008), Public Health Foundation of India (Jan 2009), Indian Statistical Institute Delhi (Jan 2009), CEDI Brunel (June 2009), ESPE Seville (June 2009), EEA Barcelona (Aug 2009), PEGNET The Hague (Sep 2009), UCD/Geary (Oct 2009), NEUDC Boston (Nov 2009).
Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
Journal of Public
Economics April 2011. With S Rawlings (Bristol).
Non-Technical
Summary of the two papers on intergenerational health transmission:
CMPO Research in Public Policy Bulletin, Issue 10.
This issue also features a
summary of the workshop I organised on Early Life and Intergenerational Health
Transmission (programme above).
Journal of Development Studies, February 2012
The
Puzzle of Muslim Advantage In Child Survival In India.
Journal of Health Economics 2010. With C Valente
(Nottingham) and A van Soest (Tilburg).
Non-technical
summary of my research programme
on Religion, Sex Preference and Health in India prepared for my ESRC-DFID
end-of-award report.
The
outputs of this research grant were graded “outstanding” by the ESRC.
Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality In
Infant Mortality In India
Journal of Development Economics, June 2010.
Online Appendix. Policy brief on mortality and income fluctuations in India. Published in Research in Public Policy Issue 6, CMPO. Podcast on the CMPO website.
Birth-Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality In India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity.
Journal of Econometrics,
Vol. 143 (2), April 2008: 274-290. With A van Soest (Tilburg).
Summary of this paper. Online Appendix
The Linked Survival Prospects of
Siblings: Evidence for The Indian States.
Population Studies, July
2008. With Wiji Arulampalam
(Warwick)
Sibling-Linked Data in the Demographic and
Health Surveys.
Economic and Political Weekly, Nov 29- Dec 5, 2008, Vol. XLIII(48),
39-44.
Book
chapters:
Ethical and Economic
Perspectives on Global Health Interventions
Forthcoming (2012), The Handbook of
Global Health Policy, edited by Garrett Brown and
Gavin Yamey. Wiley Blackwell. With Thomas Pogge
(Yale, Philosophy).
Social Divisions in Education in
India.
Chapter in A. Sharif & R. Basant (ed.), Handbook of Muslims in India, OUP 2009. With B Zamora..
Religion And Childhood Death In
India.
Chapter in A. Sharif & R. Basant (ed.), Handbook
of Muslims in India, OUP, 2009. With C
Valente and A van Soest
Recession,
Women and Work in Africa. With Marcela Umana-Aponte
(Bristol).
Chapter in
African Development: Myths and Realities, UNU/WIDER. Forthcoming, 2012.
Some Remarks on
the Economics of Child Labour.
Chapter in T. Novitz (Ed.), the Role of Labour Standards in Sustainable
Development, British Academy Publications, 2011.
Links Between
Childhood Mortality and Economic Growth and Their Implications For the
Millennium Development Goals in India.
Chapter 6, M.
McGillivray (Ed.), Achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
Palgrave-Macmillan
Primary
Education in India: Prospects of Meeting the MDG Target.
Ch. 7, M.
McGillivray (Ed.), Achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
Palgrave-MacMillan. With B. Zamora.
Papers Submitted or Close To Submission
Shadows
of the Captain of the Men of Death: Long Run Impacts of Early Life Exposure to
Pneumonia
Revised February 2012,
earlier version available as IZA DP 6041. With A Venkataramani
(Massachussetts General Hospital).
Presentations at the NBER
Children’s Meeting (6 May 2011), AEA Meetings Denver (Jan 2011), ISI Delhi
conference (Dec 2010), ASHE Cornell (June 2010) and at invited seminars in
Social Medicine (Bristol) and Economics Departments in London and Florence (May
2011), Health and Human Capital workshop, Mannheim (July 2011), EALE Cyprus
(Sep 2011), Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Oxford (Oct 2011), CSAE Oxford (Oct 2011), Health Economics Research Centre
Oxford (Autumn 2011), Social and Economic History Seminar Oxford (Jan 2012)..
Health and the Political Agency of Women.
Revised Feb 2012, earlier
version available as IZA DP 6916. With Irma Clots-Figueras
(Carlos III Madrid).
Presented at the AEA San
Francisco (Jan 2009), Gender workshop Granada (June 2009), CEPR/BREAD/AMID
London (Sep 2009), NEUDC Boston (Nov 2009), ISI Delhi (Dec 2009), PHFI Delhi
(Dec 2010), Oxford (Nov 2011), NHH Bergen (Dec 2011), International Growth
Centre conference Delhi (Dec 2011)
Preliminary draft,
February 2012. With A Venkataramani (Massachussetts General Hospital) and David Hollywood (UCL).
Where Have All The Young Girls Gone? Identifying Sex-Selection in India.
Revised version available
from the authors. With Tom Cochrane (CEPA, London).
Presented at WHO Geneva
(July 2009), Indian Statistical Institute (Dec 2009), DFID London (March 2010),
ESPE Essen (June 2010), ASHE Cornell (June 2010), Warwick CAGE workshop (July
2010), Tilburg University Econometrics and Statistics seminar (July 2010).
Royal Economic Society Conference London (April 2011), forthcoming EEA Oslo
(Aug 2011). Press release: http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2011/7464.html. Coverage: BBC world service interview,
Reuter’s blog, Financial Times, BBC Manchester news, BBC Asian network Nihal talk show(!)- live, BBC Manchester interview.
The Dynamics of Women’s Labour Supply in
Developing Countries.
Revised Dec 2011, earlier version available as IZA Discussion Paper 4879. With Marcela Umana-Aponte (Bristol).
Presented at the CSAE Oxford Conference (Mar 2009), IZA/World Bank Employment and Development Conference, Bonn (May 2009), World Bank Gender & Development Group Conference (June 2009), European Society of Population Economics Conference Seville (June 2009), Conference on Regulating for Decent Work at the ILO Geneva (July 2009), WPEG (July 2010).
·
Research
program on religious political identity in India: impacts on Hindu-Muslim
violence and access to public goods. With Irma Clots (Madrid) and Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard)
·
Gender
and electoral turnout in India : A regression discontinuity approach. With Irma
Clots (Madrid) and Lakshmi Iyer
(Harvard)
·
Electronic
voting machines and electoral outcomes in India. With Guilhem
Cassan (LSE), Irma Clots (Madrid) and Sarmistha Pal (Surrey)
·
Cognitive
development and waterborne disease: Quasi-experimental evidence from Mexico’s
1991 Clean Water Policy. With Alfonso Miranda (IoE London) and A. Venkataramani
·
Thinking
ahead: State health insurance and early life interventions- Evidence from
Danish registry data. With A. Venkataramani
and Miriam Wust (SFI Denmark).
·
Estimating
causal impacts of early life medical interventions on chronic disease in later
life health: evidence from the USA. With Bhashkar Mazumder (Chicago Fed) and A. Venkataramani
· Intergenerational impacts of education: Evidence from the Universal Primary Education Program In Nigeria. With Una Osili (Indiana).
·
Scars
of the 1960 earthquake in Chile. With Claudia Sanhueza (Chile) and Wu Yichao
(Bristol)
·
The
quantity-quality trade-off revisited: Evidence from a policy experiment in
Mexico. With A Venkataramani
· Unintended consequences of prenatal sex detection techniques. With Eddy Tam (LSE).
·
The
timing of fertility in India: Evidence From microdata.
Other Publications (pre-2008)
Links in this section are broken. I will fix them but meanwhile these
papers are downloadable from scholar.google.com or REPEC.
Spending To
Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality In India
Health Economics, 16(9),
September 2007
Online
Appendix.
Is Child Work Necessary?
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,
69(1): 29-56, 2007.
Sibling Death
Clustering In India: Scarring vs Unobserved
Heterogeneity
Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society, Series A,
169(4): 829-848, 2006. With Wiji Arulampalam.
Near
Rationality In Wage-Setting
Applied
Economics, 38 (21): 2513-21, 2006.
Child Farm
Labour: The Wealth Paradox
World Bank Economic Review, 17(2), December: 197-227, 2003.
With Chris Heady.
Growth And Welfare Provisioning: Lessons From The
English Poor Laws?
Journal
of International Development, 13(7): 1083-1096, August 2001.
Assessing the
Impact of Microcredit: A Zambian Case Study
Changes In
Utilization And Productivity In A Deregulating Economy
Journal of Development Economics, 57(2): 391-420, December 1998.
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation In Rural Pakistan: A Semiparametric Analysis.
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5):463-480,
Sept/Oct 1998. With Cliff Attfield.
The Puzzle Of
Jobless Growth In Indian Manufacturing
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,
40(1): pp.5-32, February 1998.
Welfare
Implications Of Fiscal Reform: The Case Of Food Subsidies In India
Child
Activities In South Asia And Sub-Saharan Africa
Other Mimeographs
Wuthering Heights: Birth Shocks
and Stature of Indian Men and Women. Presented: Bristol (Feb. 2008),
ESPE-London (June 2008). Draft available on request.
Little Women: Trends and Social
Inequalities in Indian Women’s Heights. Presented at the ISI Delhi conference,
December 2007. Draft available on request.
The Intergenerational Spillover of
Early Life Conditions: The Very
Long Arm of Childhood. Mimeograph,
Bristol. Presentation at the AEA Meetings Denver January 2011. Draft available
on request.
Status and Sons. Presented at CMPO Bristol (December 2008), Carlos III Madrid (April 2009). Draft available on request.
Parent
Altruism, Cash Transfers And Child Poverty. Working Paper 04/562,
University of Bristol.
Investigating
Separability of Parent and Child Labour Supply, Mimeograph, University of
Bristol.
Semiparametric
Estimates of Returns To School In South Africa. With Claudia Sanhueza (Cambridge).
Spatial
Variation in Child Mortality in India. With Arnab Bhattacharjee.
What
Causes Unemployment in India? Mimeograph.
Links to Recently Organised Workshops
Social Mobility workshop (co-organised with Paul Gregg): 28 October 2011
Public talk on water and
health hazards at the Bristol
Festival of Nature, June 2011
Long Run
Influence of the Early Childhood Environment in Developing Countries, session
organised at the American Economic Association Meetings Denver, January 2011
Non-technical
overview of papers presented at the workshop.
Research
Reports and Monographs
