Dr Sonia Bhalotra
Reader in Economics
Centre for Market and Public Organisation
Contact details
Tele: +44 (0)117 928 8418Email: S.Bhalotra@bristol.ac.uk
Office Hours: Thurs 2.15 & Thurs 3.15
Room: 0B7
Teaching Units
ECONM3003: MSc Topics in Development EconomicsECONM3006: 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.
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Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure & Infant Mortality in India, Health Economics, 16(9), September 2007.
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Birth-spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics, frailty and fecundity. Forthcoming, Journal of Econometrics. With Arthur van Soest.
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Is child work necessary?, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 69(1): 29-56, 2007.
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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.
Working Papers
- 'Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India,' IZA Discussion Paper 3086, September 2007.
- 'Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States,' IZA Discussion Paper 2488, December 2006. With Wiji Arulampalam.
- 'Primary education in India: Prospects of meeting the MDG target,' Research Paper 2006/80, UNU/WIDER, Helsinki, July 2006. With Bernarda Zamora.
Related Links
Microeconomic Research at Bristol
The Centre for Market and Public Organisation