Dr Sonya Krutikova

Deputy Research Director

Sonya is Deputy Research Director at the IFS and an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manchester. Her research interests are in the areas of Economics of Education, as well as Labour and Development Economics. She works on understanding the drivers of intergenerational persistence of disadvantage with a focus on the role that human capital plays. Sonya’s research spans Lower and Middle Income, as well as High Income Contexts with a key cross-cutting theme of how to translate knowledge into context appropriate policy designs. As part of her research Sonya conducts large scale Randomised Controlled Trials of government programmes and longitudinal observational studies, as well as utilising existing survey and administrative data-sets.

Education

PhD Economics, University of Oxford, 2011

MSc Economics for Development, University of Oxford, 2007

BA Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Sussex, 2003

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https://sites.google.com/view/sonyakrutikova/home?pli=1
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0000-0003-2488-7489

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Fetal Origins of Personality: Effects of Early Life Circumstances on Adult Personality Traits

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In this paper we look at whether conditions in early life can have persistent influence on the development of personality traits, as has been shown to be the case for health and cognitive skills. We find strong and robust evidence of persistent impacts among siblings of early life rainfall fluctuations on measures of latent personality trait, known as core self-evaluation, in adulthood.

5 January 2015

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Child development and policy interventions (an IFS briefing as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science)

Event 5 November 2014 at 09:30 <p>10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH</p>
The first years of a child’s life lay the basis for lifelong outcomes. During this vital period, though, many children are exposed to poverty, malnutrition, illnesses and un-stimulating home environments, which have a detrimental effect on their cognitive, motor, and social-emotional development, as well as on their health, thus prohibiting them from reaching their full developmental potential. This period of early childhood is therefore a critically important one for intervention.
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Equalising Opportunity? School Quality and Home Disadvantage in Vietnam

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In this paper we examine the learning achievement of primary school pupils in Vietnam and explore the relationships between home-background, teacher, peer and school factors and learning progress in Grade 5, using data from Young Lives. We find that disadvantaged pupils receive relatively equitable access in relation to indicators of ‘fundamental’ school quality, a considerable policy success regarding the provision of ‘minimum standards’. However, differences by home advantage are relatively large where more sophisticated ‘opportunities to learn’ are considered, such as the number of hours of instruction received, including through ‘extra classes’, as well as access to learning resources such as computers, internet and non-text books.

10 January 2014

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Changing Living Standards in Southern Indian Villages 1975-2006: Revisiting the ICRISAT Village Level Studies

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We study changes in living conditions using longitudinal data covering 30 years in six villages in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, initially surveyed during 1975–1984, and resurveyed in recent years, as part of the ICRISAT Village Level Studies. Monetary welfare indicators (such as incomes, assets, consumption and poverty) and non-monetary indicators of well-being (such as basic literacy, education, health and subjective well-being) have improved considerably. Consumption growth is linked to literacy and education at baseline. Other assets, such as land, have a neglible impact, suggesting that labour and human capital have been instrumental for growth in these villages.Change involved a large increase in various off-farm activities.

14 August 2013

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Adult mortality and children’s transition into marriage

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Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways.On top of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic outcomes including the timing of marriage. This paper examines marriage outcomes for a sample of children interviewed in Tanzania in the early 1990s and re-interviewed in 2004.

23 December 2008