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Details for Professor Sonia Bhalotra
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Sonia Bhalotra |
| Job title | Research Fellow in Economics, Finance and Management |
| Department | School of Economics, Finance and Management University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/www/ecsrb/bhalotra.htm |
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| Qualifications | BA(Delhi), DPhil(Oxon) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | ESRC Virtual College for Economics, Politics and Geography (2002-5), Royal Economic Society, European Economic Association (occasional years), American Economic Association (occasional years). |
| Keywords | development economics applied microeconomics economics of the family child health child labour gender labour economics |
| Areas of expertise | My current research interests are motivated by welfare issues in low-income economies. My recent work is concerned with child mortality, malnutrition, child labour, primary education, intra-household resource allocation, altruism, gender, and imperfections in credit and labour markets. I have used large-scale integrated household survey data from Africa and Asia in my research. My doctoral work was concerned with questions of labour demand, wage dispersion, and aggregate unemployment and productivity. This analysis used industry-state panel data that covered the early phase of economic reform in India. |
| Media experience | I have written a piece on child labour and poverty for the Guardian; my research has been reported in the Financial Times and in the bulletins of numerous NGOs. |