Sonia Bhalotra is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. She obtained an MPhil and DPhil from Oxford and a BSc Hons from Delhi. Her research has made contributions in the areas of health, gender and political economy.

She is currently Principal Investigator on an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council 2021-2026, Co-Investigator ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at ISER Essex 2019-2024, Co-Investigator ESRC Project on Human Rights, Big Data and Technology at the Human Rights Centre Essex 2015-2021 and collaborator on a NIH (and, initially CEDIL) funded project 2020-2025. She is recently leading the Wellbeing Theme at the CAGE Research Centre at Warwick.

She is Fellow of the International Economic Association (2021-), Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (2019-), the Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR London (2019-), IEPS Brazil (2020-), SFI Denmark (2012-) and Research Associate at IFS London.

Sonia is Associate Editor at the Economic Journal, on the Editorial Board of the Review of Income and Wealth and Senior Editor Oxford Research Encyclopaedia Economics and Finance.

Her work has contributed to understanding skill creation, the long run benefits of early life health interventions (clean water, antibiotics, infant care); maternal and child health including mental health (maternal depression, adolescent mental health), maternal mortality; domestic violence, gender inequality; the political economy of public service provision; accountability and the right to health; implementing universal health coverage; parental investments in children; intergenerational mobility, the gender pay gap and women’s labour force participation, and the dynamics of mortality, fertility and sex selection. Her research is set, inter alia, in India, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, America, the UK and Sweden.

Sonia has acted as Keynote or Panelist in both academic and policy conferences on more than 25 occasions in the last few years- including a British Academy debate on global inequalities, the gender equality panel at an SDG financing event at the European Investment Bank, an OECD Panel on gender pay gaps, an Academy of Social Science event celebrating Women in Social Science, and a Swedish National Child Healthcare Conference

She is on the Women in Economics Committee of the European Economic Association, the Evidence Panel of the Early Intervention Foundation, the International Advisory Boards of Lancet Women, Academics Stand Against Poverty Yale, The Millennium Nucleus for the Study of the Life Course and Vulnerability Santiago Chile, the Goettingen India Centre, a UNICEF network on adolescents in humanitarian crises and the Centre for Development Economics Research at the University of Kent. She has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford, Essen and Gothenburg. She has recently served on Scientific Committees at the WHO, UNICEF, ILO, British Academy, the European Society of Population Economics Council, the International Review Panel of the Danish Research Council and several ESRC committees, and she was a CROP Research Fellow at Bergen.

She has or has had collaborations with academics in Politics, Psychology, Philosophy, Medicine, Law.

Her AER March 2020 paper with Victoria Baranov, Pietro Biroli and Joanna Maselko was covered in AER Research Highlights: https://www.aeaweb.org/research/maternal-depression-cognitive-behavioral-therapy. And summarised in this Video: https://youtu.be/gFbFi7LTWaI

Her daughter Sameera made this video of her 2013 paper on cognitive development and infectious disease:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP374sjvEFM

The IGC/LSE created this video of her paper showing that economic growth improves under women legislators: https://www.theigc.org/multimedia/are-women-politicians-good-for-economic-growth/

Sonia has written several blogs, some of which can be found here:
https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/blog?author=14
https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/domestic-violence-during-covid-19-related-lockdown/
http://www.ideasforindia.in/search.html
https://voxdev.org/users/srbhalotra
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/publications/globalperspectives/
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/publications/


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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15639
published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15609
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15258
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Manuel Fernández, Fan Wang
revised and resubmitted: Journal of Political Economy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14958
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet, Francisco J. Pino
revised and resubmitted: Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14543
revised and resubmitted: Review of Economic Studies
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13056
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paulino Font Gilabert, Joanna Maselko
revised and resubmitted: Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11878
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090-3139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11803
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 175–189.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11742
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 853-864
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11716
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11640
revised & resubmitted: Journal of Political Economy ( substantially revised version)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11596
revised and resubmitted: Journal of Economic Growth, (revised version)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11590
published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 28 February 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11292
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 53, 102746
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11274
published as 'Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (2), 461 - 479
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11239
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146 (C), 102275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10938
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (2), 488 - 531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10618
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (4), 490-520.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10405
substantially revised version published as 'Twin Birth and Maternal Condition' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 853 - 864 / published as 'The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090 - 3139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10271
published as 'On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments and Mortality' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (651), 1 - 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9930
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9679
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102413
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8969
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (1), 1101 - 1157
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7771
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (614), 1844 -1878
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7473
published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2014, 104, 4-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6216
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (2), 164-97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6194
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 273-277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5371
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 286-299
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5363
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (2), 145-167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4879
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Marcela Umana-Aponte
revised version available
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4353
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 660 - 672
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4009
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3086
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 93 (1), 7-19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2914
published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 911-928
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2488
published in: Population Studies, 2008, 62 (2), 171-190.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2251
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2006, 169 (4), 829-848
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2163
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 143 (2), 274-290
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