Vani K. Borooah

Professor of Applied Economics

University of Ulster

School of Public Policy, Economics and Law

University of Ulster

Shore Road, Newtownabbey

Northern Ireland BT37 0QB

United Kingdom

Tel: +44-28-366346

Fax:+44-28-366847

e-mail: vk.borooah@ulster.ac.uk

Biographical Information

Ph.D. University of Southampton, 1978

Senior Research Officer, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge 1977-1987

Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics, Queens' College, Cambridge, 1979-1987

Professor of Applied Economics, University of Ulster, 1987-present

Honorary and Visiting Appointments

· President, European Public Choice Society, 1993-94.

· President, Irish Economic Association, 1994-96

· Member, Council of the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.

· Member, RAE (2007) sub-panel for Development Studies, 2005

· Member, Royal Irish Academy, 2006

· Honorary Professor of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia, 2005.

· Research Fellow, Trade Union Economic Research Institute, Stockholm, 1989.

· Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne, 1994 .

· Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Limerick, 1995.

· Visiting Research Fellow, Queensland Treasury, 1995.

· Visiting Research Fellow, The Policy Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, 1998.

· Visiting Research Fellow, International Centre for Economic Research, Torino, Italy, 1999.

· Visiting Research Fellow, Queensland Treasury, 1999.

· Visiting Research Professor in Political Economy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2000.

· Eirk Malmsten Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Goteborg, Sweden, 2001.

· Expert Adviser to the Trade, Enterprise and Industry Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly, 2000

· Expert Adviser to the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union, 2000-01

· Visiting Research Fellow, International Centre for Economic Research, Torino, Italy, 2002.

· Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2003

· Visiting Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2004.

· Visiting Research Fellow, International Centre for Economic Research, Torino, Italy, 2005.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

1. Logit and Probit: Ordered and Multinomial Models, Quantitative Studies in the Social Sciences, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc. 2001.

2. “Does Unemployment Make Men Less ‘Marriageable’?”, Applied Economics, vol. 34, pp 1571-82, 2002.

3. “An Analysis of Occupational Outcomes for Indigenous and Asian Employees in Australia”, Economic Record vol. 78 pp. 1-19, 2002 (with John Mangan).

4. “A Duration-Sensitive Measure of the Unemployment Rate: Theory and Application”, Labour, vol. 13 (3), pp. 453-468, 2002.

5. “Births, Infants and Children: an Econometric Portrait of Women and Children in India”, Development and Change, vol. 34, pp. 67-103, 2003.

6. “Gender Bias Among Children in India in their Diet and Immunisation Against Disease”, Social Science and Medicine vol. 58, pp. 1719-1731, 2004.

7. “The 'Politics of Demography': A Study of inter-Community Fertility Differences in India”, European Journal of Political Economy , vol. 20, pp. 551-578, 2004.

8. "On the Incidence of Diarrhoea among Young Indian Children", Economics and Human Biology, vol. 2, pp. 119-138, 2004.

9. “Bridging the Gap Between the Measurement of Poverty and of Deprivation”, Applied Economics Letters , vol. 12, pp. 383-89, 2005.

10. “Religion, Literacy, and the Female-to-Male Ratio”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 60, pp. 419-428, 2005.

11. "Caste, Inequality and Poverty in India", Review of Development Economics vol. 9, pp. 399-414, 2005.

12. "Vidya, Veda, and Varna: The Influence of Religion and Caste on Education in Rural India", Journal of Development Studies vol. 41, pp. 1369-1404, 2005. (with Sriya Iyer).

13. “Incumbency and Parliamentary Elections in India: An Analysis of the Congress Party’s Electoral Performance, 1962-1999”, Economic and Political Weekly vol. XLI, pp. 739-746, 2006.

14. “The Decomposition of Inter-Group Differences in a Logit Model: Extending the Oaxaca-Blinder Approach with an Application to School Enrolment in India”, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement (forthcoming).

15. “How Much Happiness is There in the World? A Cross Country Study”, Applied Economics Letters (forthcoming).

16. “Equity Sensitive Indicators of Living Standards with an Application to Northern Ireland”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, (forthcoming) (with Paddy Hillyard and Mike Tomlinson).

Areas of Research

1. Demographic and Social Outcomes, with particular reference to fertility, nutrition, health, and infant mortality in developing countries

2. Poverty and Inequality, with particular reference to the decomposition of poverty and inequality measures

3. Labour Market Outcomes, with particular reference to women and ethnic minorities and to the measurement of unemployment

4. Public Choice, with particular reference to voting behaviour and electoral outcomes

Complete List of Publications

Teaching Material

Selected Papers