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)
October 2011: Many of the
links below don’t work. The first few do and I am working down the list to
correct them.
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
Shadows
of the Captain of the Men of Death: Long Run Impacts of Early Life Exposure to
Pneumonia
With A Venkataramani
(Massachussetts General Hospital). Updated October
2011. Submitted. Available as IZA DP 6041.
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).
Health and the Political Agency of Women.
With Irma Clots-Figueras (Carlos III Madrid). Revised Dec 2011. Submitted. Available
as IZA DP 6916.
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)
War and Stature: Growing up During the
Nigerian Civil War
With R Akresh
(Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), M. Leone (Sussex) and U. Osili
(Indiana). Forthcoming, American Economic
Review P&P, May 2012.
IZA discussion paper 6914,
December 2011.
Gradients of the Intergenerational
Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
With S Rawlings (Bristol). Forthcoming, Review of Economics and
Statistics.
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?
With S Rawlings (Bristol). Journal of Public Economics April 2011.
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).
Where Have All The Young Girls Gone? Identifying Sex-Selection in India.
With Tom Cochrane (CEPA,
London). Revised version available from the authors.
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.
Appendix
With Marcela Umana-Aponte (Bristol). IZA Discussion Paper 4879.
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).
Poverty and Survival. Forthcoming, Journal of Development Studies, February
2012.
The
Puzzle of Muslim Advantage In Child Survival In India.
With C Valente
(Nottingham) and A van Soest (Tilburg). Journal of Health Economics 2010. Online
Appendix. Revised
Abstract.
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.
Birth-Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality In India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity. Online Appendix
With A van Soest.
Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 143 (2), April 2008: 274-290. Summary of this paper.
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.
Sibling-Linked Data in the Demographic and
Health Surveys.
Economic and Political Weekly, Nov 29- Dec 5, 2008, Vol. XLIII(48),
39-44.
The Linked Survival Prospects of
Siblings: Evidence for The Indian States.
With Wiji
Arulampalam. Population
Studies, July 2008.
Social Divisions in Education in
India.
With B Zamora. In A. Sharif & R. Basant
(ed.), Handbook of Muslims in
India, OUP. Abstract.
Religion And Childhood Death In
India.
With C Valente and A van Soest
in A. Sharif & R. Basant (ed.), Handbook of Muslims in India, OUP, 2009
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.
Near Rationality In Wage-Setting, Applied
Economics, 38 (21): 2513-21, 2006.
Changes In Utilization And
Productivity In A Deregulating Economy
Journal of Development
Economics, 57(2): 391-420, December 1998.
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.
Scars
of the 1960 earthquake in Chile. With Claudia
Sanhueza (Chile) and Wu Yichao (Bristol)
Social
banking and poverty in India. With Jon Temple
(Bristol) and Liz Washbrook (Bristol)
The
timing of fertility: Evidence From microdata.
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
