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Full Name: Sowmya Wijayambal Arulampalam [Wiji for short]
Phone: +44 (0)24 7652 3471
Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 3032
Email: wiji.arulampalam@warwick.ac.uk
Room: S2.118
OFFICE HOURS (DURING TERM TIME): THURSDAYS 9:45-11:45
Research Interests
Econometrics
- Labour: Unemployment (durations, scarring & persistence); Training; Effect of National Minimum Wage.
- Education: University drop-outs; Medical School application and selection.
- Development: Infant & Child mortality; Schooling and Educational outcome in India; female autonomy and family welffare outcomes; malnutrition.
- Econometrics: cross-section econometrics; Quantile regressions; Panel Data econometrics; Duration models etc.
- Public Economics: Effect of corporate taxes on wages, location choice etc.; Charitable giving and receiving.
Teaching 08/09
Other Current Responsibilities
Current PhD Students
- Alejandra Manquilef (joint with Jennifer Smith)
- Marco Alfano (joint with Robin Naylor)
- Asako Ohinata (joint with Mark Stewart)
- Peter Backus (joint with Robin Naylor)
- SECOND YEAR: Yu Aoki (with Robin Naylor); Artemisa Flores (with Jeremy Smith); Daniel Gutknecht (with Valentina Corradi); Federica Liberini (with Ben Lockwood); Francesco Porcelli (with Ben Lockwood); Rafael Sanchez (with Mark Stewart).
