Professor Sonia Bhalotra
Professor of Economics
Centre for Market and Public Organisation
Contact details
Tele: +44 (0)117 928 8418Email: S.Bhalotra@bristol.ac.uk
Office Hours: Thurs 11.45 & Thurs 2.15
Room: 0B7
Teaching Units
ECONM3003: MSc Topics in Development EconomicsECONM1008: MSc Applied Economics
ECONM3006: MSc Advanced Topics in Economic Analysis
Intercalated BSc in International Health (School of Medicine)
Personal Web Page
Research Interests
Sonia Bhalotra's research is in applied microeconomics, with applications relating to development economics, household economics, demography, labour economics and political economy. Her work is motivated by welfare issues in low-income economies. Her recent research is concerned with health, education and gender and, in particular, child mortality, fertility and birth-spacing, child labour, intra-household resource allocation, and imperfections in credit and labour markets.
Recent Publications
For a full list of Sonia Bhalotra's recent publications please go to her personal web page.
- Gradients of the Intergenenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries. (With S. Rawlings) Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics. Expected print version: Sept 2012.
- Intergenenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: the Penalty of Gender Inequality? (With S. Rawlings) , Journal of Public Economics, April 2011.
- Fatal Fluctuations: Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India. Journal of Development Economics. 93(1), September 2011, pp. 7-19.
- The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India, (with C. Valente and A. Van Soest), Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29(2), pp. 191-204.
Working Papers
- Shadows of the Captain of the Men of Death: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure (With A. Venkataramani), 2011
- War and Stature: Growing up during the Nigerian-Biafran War. (with R. Akresh, M Leone and U Osili), 2011
- Health and the Political Agency of Women. (with I. Clots-Figueras), 2011
- Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identifying Sex-Selective Abortion in India, (with T. Cochrane), IZA Discussion Paper 5381, 2010.
Related Links
Microeconomic Research at Bristol
The Centre for Market and Public Organisation