Sophie Mitra is professor of economics at Fordham University in New York City. Her research agenda has documented economic insecurity and identified policies that reduce it. A line of work consists in evaluating the impact of social protection policies on wellbeing and health. Another line of work has produced evidence to document disability inequalities and to understand the factors that drive them, such as discrimination or extra costs of living for families (e.g. medical or transportation costs). She is the principal investigator of the Disability Data Initiative which produces disability-disaggregated indicators. She is the author of Disability, Health and Human Development (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). She received her doctorate in economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Sophie Mitra has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and Princeton University.
Sophie joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2023.
published in World Development, 2018, 104: 297-309.
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