Prof. Sonia Bhalotra

Women’s Careers and Family Formation

Sonia Bhalotra, together with Damian Clarke and Selma Walther, has authored a paper that discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labor force participation. The researchers observed that, while technological innovations in reproductive health technologies have muted the family/career tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy-makers have not achieved as much as they might.

Ms. Bhalotra is an applied microeconomist working in family and labour economics. She is currently engaged in research programmes on violence against women (supported by an ERC Advanced Grant); gender pay gaps (that contributes to a research programme on families which she leads in the ESRC research centre MiSoC, Essex); and the economics of mental health on which she is developing a CAGE (Warwick)- IFS (London) led international network. She is also continuing her research on the dynamic socio-economic effects of early life health interventions.

Sonia Bhalotra is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. She has also held appointments at the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Essex. She is a Fellow of the International Economics Association, the UK Academy of Social Sciences, CEPR London, IZA Bonn, IEPS Brazil and SFI Copenhagen. Ms. Bhalotra is Associate Editor at the Economic Journal, on the Editorial Board of the Review of Income and Wealth and Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia Economics and Finance. She obtained a BSc Honours in Economics at the University of Delhi and an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford.