Sonia Bhalotra
Reader in Economics
Department
of Economics
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 theme
Royal Economic Society
PhD Presentation Meeting & Job Market, Jan 2010. I am on the Applied
Micro Committee.
Programme of the workshop on Foetal Origins and Intergenerational Health Transmission, 16 October 2009
Reader (Associate Professor) in Economics, University of Bristol since 2003 (tenured since 1998).
World Health Organisation: Scientific Research Group on Health Equity Analysis & Research (2009-)
External
Affiliate, Health Econometrics and Data Group,
Research Fellow, IZA,
Member, IZA Child Labour
Network (2007-)
Research Associate, Centre for Study of African
Economies, University of
Research Associate, Queen Elizabeth House,
University of
Research Fellow, CHILD,
Current Teaching
MSc Applied Economics
MSc Topics in Development Economics
BSc International Health (medical students)
PhD Students: Sam Rawlings, Marcela Umana-Aponte
Current Administration
University Equality and Diversity Committee
University Racial Diversity Advisory Group
Senior Management Committee, CMPO,
Management Board, Townsend Centre
for International Poverty Studies,
PhD Students- Placement and Welfare Officer, Research Workshops Organiser
Overseas Students Liaison Officer, Economics
Research Areas: Development
Economics, Health, Education, Demography, Public Economics, Economics of the
Family, Political Economy, Labour Economics.
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1991-1995 |
DPhil. Economics, |
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Thesis on labour
markets and economic liberalisation in |
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1987-1989 |
MPhil. Economics, |
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1984-1987 |
B.A. Honours in Economics, |
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1992 |
Visiting Research Student, Cornell, Fall Term |
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1989 |
Visiting Research Student, Berkeley, Summer
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Publications & Mimeographs
The Puzzle of Muslim
Advantage In Child Survival In India. Online Appendix. Journal of Health Economics.
With C Valente (Nottingham) and A
van Soest (
Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality In Infant Mortality In India, JDE version, Online Appendix. Journal of Development Economics. Published online, May 2009. Policy brief on mortality and income fluctuations in India
Birth-Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality In India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity. Online Appendix, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 143 (2), April 2008: 274-290. With A van Soest. Summary of this paper.
Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in
Developing Countries . With S Rawlings (
Health and the Political Agency of Women. With Irma Clots-Figueras
(Carlos Madrid III). Presented at the AEA
The
Dynamics of Labour Supply in (66) Developing Countries: Women’s Work and
Household Insurance. With Marcela Umana-Aponte (
Wuthering
Heights: Birth Shocks and Stature of Indian Men and Women. Presented:
Little
Women: Trends and Social Inequalities in Indian Women’s Heights. Presented at the ISI Delhi conference, December 2007.
The
Intergenerational Spillover of Early Life Conditions:
The Very Long Arm of Childhood. Mimeograph,
The Intergenerational Correlation of Health in Developing Countries. With Sam Rawlings (
Sex-Selective
Abortion and the Rising Girl Deficit in
Status and Sons. Presented at CMPO
The
Political Economy Of Health Expenditure In India.
With Juan Pedro Schmid (World
Bank). Presented at EEA
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.
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.
Spending To Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality In India & Online Appendix. Health Economics, 16(9), September 2007.
Is Child Work
Necessary?,
Childhood Mortality
And Economic Growth. Chapter 6 in Mark McGillivray
(ed.), Millennium Development
Goals: Assessing and Forecasting Progress, Palgrave-McMillan, 2008. Abstract.
Primary Education
in India: Prospects of Meeting the MDG Target.
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,
Journal of Development Studies, 37(4):.81-100, April 2001. With J. Copestake and S. Johnson. Abstract.
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,
Social Divisions in Education in India. 2009, in A. Sharif & R. Basant (ed.),
Handbook of Muslims in
A Decomposition of Educational Gaps between Religion and Caste Groups in India. With Bernarda Zamora. Presented ESPE London 2008.
Religion
And Childhood Death In India. 2009
in A. Sharif & R. Basant (ed.), Handbook of Muslims in
Welfare
Implications Of Fiscal Reform: The Case Of Food Subsidies In India, in Tony Addison and Alan Roe (eds.), Fiscal Policy for Development: Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth,
Studies in Development Economics and Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2004.
Child
Activities In South Asia And Sub-Saharan Africa, in P. Lawrence and C. Thirtle
(eds.) Africa and Asia in Comparative Development, London: Palgrave,
Macmillan, September 2001. With Chris Heady.
Smoking and Child Labour. Revised version presented at the IZA-World Bank Conference on Child
Labour, June 2007.
Spatial Unemployment Rate
Differentials in India, Revise and resubmit, Journal of
Population Economics.
Parent
Altruism, Cash Transfers And Child Poverty. Working Paper 04/562,
Early Childhood
Investments In Human Capital: Parental Resources And
Preferences. Working Paper 04/561,
Investigating Separability of
Parent And Child Labour Supply, Mimeograph,
Semiparametric Estimates of
Returns To School In
Insider Effects In Wage Determination In
Spatial Variation in Child Mortality in
What Causes Unemployment In
Social Expenditure and
Inequality: Historical and Economic Perspectives. With
Richard M. Smith (Geography,
Book note, Economic
Journal, K. Basu (1997): Analytical Development
Economics, MIT Press, 1998
Selected Work in Progress
Social banking and poverty in India. With
Jon Temple (
Structural estimates of son
preference in India. With Arthur
van Soest (Tilburg & RAND).
The timing of fertility: Evidence From microdata. With Fiona Steele (
The joy of motherhood? Evidence from
Selection on unobservables
and excess girl mortality in
Income and health: Evidence from a rural credit
experiment. With Liz Washbrook (
Research
Reports and Monographs
Educational deficits and social identity in India. April 2009. Background research paper, UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2010
Child labour: A
microeconomic perspective. Nontechnical summary of some of my research
findings, published in the
The impact of economic liberalisation on employment and wages in India, Working Paper, International Policy Group, ILO, January 2002.
Child labour in Africa, OECD Social, Employment and Migration WP,
Directorate for Employment,
Labour and Social Affairs,
Child
labour in Africa and Asia, background research paper for the Education For All Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO, May 2003.
Child labour:
what have we learnt? Social Protection Discussion Paper, World Bank,
A Methodological Guide To
Child Labour Programmes In Developing Countries, Research report for IPEC, ILO Geneva,
January 2001.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/timebound/manual.pdf
Impact Assessment of the PULSE microfinance programme in Lusaka, Zambia. Research report for DFID,
Joint with James Copestake,
Mike Godwin, Holger Grundel,
Susan Johnson and David Musona.
Globalisation, social
protection and child labour, Background paper for the Director-General's
Report on Child Labour, ILO,
Previous Appointments: Senior Research Officer, Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge
(1999-2001), Fellow in Economics, Newnham College and
Wolfson College Cambridge (1999-2001), Visiting
Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge (1998) and at CSAE Oxford (1998), Wingate
Research Fellow Edinburgh (1994-95). I have also visited RAND (2005-06),
Institute for Advanced Studies Princeton (2000). I was previously Lecturer in
Economics at
Policy Advice, Media: Sonia has been
appointed to the WHO Scientific Research Group on Health Equity Analysis
Research, Expert Committees on Child Labour at the World Bank and the ILO,
Expert Panels on Unsafe Abortion invited by the Hewlett Foundation, invited to
advise on a new Human Development Index for the 2010 Human Development Report
of UNDP, to write background research papers for flagship reports produced by
the OECD, UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the International Labour Organisation
(ILO), DFID, and the World Institute of Development Economics Research
(UNU/WIDER). Her research has been used by NGOs for advocacy and reported in
the Press. It has been cited
at the UN Special Assembly for Children (2001) and the World Trade Organisation Meetings at
Peer Review: Sonia has served two terms on the
Sonia has refereed papers and book proposals regularly
for numerous international journals and publishers including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of
Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society (A), Journal of Development Economics, Economic Journal, Economica, Labour Economics,
Review of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Economic Development
and Cultural Change, Cambridge Journal of Economic, Journal of Population
Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Oxford Development Studies,
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Journal of International Development, International
Journal of Epidemiology, Social Science and Medicine, World Development, Oxford
Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Princeton
University Press, Cambridge University Press, Ashgate,
Routledge.
Organisation of Conferences: Sonia was on the Selection Committee
for the second Ricardo Faini Conference in
Development Economics for Doctoral Students (
Academic and Policy Conferences: Conference presentations in 2007-2009 include the American Economic
Association Meetings (San Francisco), North-Eastern Universities Development
Economics Conference (Harvard, Tufts), European Society of Population Economics
(London, Seville), European Economic Association (Barcelona), CSAE Conference
on Economic Development in Africa Oxford, the World Bank/IZA Conference on
Employment and Development (Bonn). She has been invited to speak at a British
Academy Conference on Sustainable Development (
In previous years Sonia has presented papers at the World Congress of the Econometric Society (2000 & 2005), the European Conference on Health Economics and Econometrics, the Panel Data Conference, Royal Economic Society (UK), European Econometric Society Meetings, American Econometric Society, ESRC Econometric Study Group, ESRC/HMRC Public Economics Conference. She has presented research seminars at, inter alia, IFS (London), RAND (LA), INRA-LEA/DELTA (Paris), CenTER (Tilburg), CAM (Copenhagen), IAS (Princeton), ISI, IEG and NCAER (Delhi), WIDER (Helsinki), ILO (Geneva), the World Bank (DC), the Universities of Munich, Uppsala, Tor Vergata in Rome, Athens, Ljubljana, McMaster, Toronto, George Washington University, the LSE, UCL, Essex, Oxford, Sussex, Southampton, Keele, Warwick, Nottingham, Bath, Aberdeen, Manchester, Brunel.
