Professor Wiji Arulampalam (nee Narendranathan)
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
My office Hours for Term 2 are: Tuesdays 10:00-12:00
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 2011/12
- EC910: Econometrics B (M.Sc) Term 2.
- EC977: Panel Data Econometrics (p/g)
Other Current Responsibilities
- Programme Director, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation.
- Editorial Board - Foundations and Trends in Econometrics.
- Research Fellow - IZA, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany.
Current PhD Students
- First year: Sam Watson (Warwick Medical School - jointly with Stavros Petrou)
- Second year: Mario Sanclemente (with Robin Naylor)
- Final 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).
