Sowmya Wijayambal Arulampalam, known as Wiji Arulampalam, is an economist and professor at the department of economics in the University of Warwick. Arulampalam is the 152nd most cited female economist in the world according to the RePEc/IDEAS ranking.[1]

Arulampalam holds a BA and MA in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics where she also obtained her PhD.[2] She is on the editorial board of the journal Foundations and Trends in Econometrics.[3] Arulampalam is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.[4] From 1991 to 1994, she was a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and is currently a board member of the European Association of Labour Economists.[5]

Research and publications

Her research focuses on econometrics, development, education economics, health economics, labour economics and public economics. Arulampalam's work has been cited over 8500 times.[6] Her most cited[6] paper is on the glass ceiling in Europe.[7] She published research not only in econometrics journals such as the Journal of Econometrics[8] but also in medical journals such as the British Medical Journal.[9]

Her research has been cited in The New York Times,[10] Forbes,[11] The Guardian,[12][13] The Observer,[14][15] The Daily Mirror[16] and the Investors Chronicle.[17]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "Top Female Economists Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  2. ^ "CV" (PDF). warwick.ac.uk. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  3. ^ "now publishers - Editorial Board Foundations and Trends in Econometrics". www.nowpublishers.com. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  4. ^ "Wiji Arulampalam | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  5. ^ "Executive Committee 2020". EALE. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  6. ^ a b "Wiji Arulampalam nee Narendranathan - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  7. ^ Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. (January 2007). "Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wage Distribution" (PDF). ILR Review. 60 (2): 163–186. doi:10.1177/001979390706000201. ISSN 0019-7939. S2CID 8475268.
  8. ^ Arulampalam, Wiji; Corradi, Valentina; Gutknecht, Daniel (2017-10-01). "Modeling heaped duration data: An application to neonatal mortality" (PDF). Journal of Econometrics. Measurement Error Models. 200 (2): 363–377. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2017.06.016. ISSN 0304-4076. S2CID 24303777.
  9. ^ Watson, S. I.; Arulampalam, W.; Petrou, S.; Marlow, N.; Morgan, A. S.; Draper, E. S.; Santhakumaran, S.; Modi, N.; Group, On behalf of the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit and the NESCOP (2014-07-01). "The effects of designation and volume of neonatal care on mortality and morbidity outcomes of very preterm infants in England: retrospective population-based cohort study". BMJ Open. 4 (7): e004856. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-004856. ISSN 2044-6055. PMC 4091399. PMID 25001393.
  10. ^ Mankiw, N. Gregory (2008-06-01). "The Problem With the Corporate Tax". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  11. ^ Mathur, Aparna (31 May 2017). "Corporate Tax Reform Done Right Can Boost Middle Class Wages". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  12. ^ Lipsett, Anthea (2008-03-20). "Able students need classes the most, says report". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  13. ^ Curtis, Polly (2002-03-28). "Background a factor in university drop-outs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  14. ^ Doward, Jamie (2011-05-07). "University application process penalises disadvantaged pupils, study finds". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  15. ^ Hill, Amelia; correspondent, education (2005-03-27). "Medical school bias revealed". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  16. ^ "Dr. Coomaraswamy to deliver lecture at Jaffna University". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  17. ^ Dillow, Chris (2017-05-31). "What if Labour wins?". www.investorschronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
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