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DR MANISHA SHAH



Contact Details

Organization: Economics
Position: LECTURER
Email:
Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/who/profile.cfm?sid=83
Work: 8344 5211
Fax: 8344 6899
Room: 609
Level: 06
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Development Economics Health, Labour, Impact Evaluation Mexico, Indonesia, Ecuador

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Spanish Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
ARTS/ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES University of California - Berkeley 01-Dec-1995
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES London School of Economics and Political Science 01-Dec-1997
AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS University of California - Berkeley 01-Dec-2003
AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS University of California - Berkeley 01-Jun-2006

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Teaching Award for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching 01-Dec-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Community-Led Sanitation Interventions :The Role of Social Capital Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Economics of Health Behaviours
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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Journal Articles

  • Prostitutes and Brides?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Economic Review
    Volume: 98
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 516 - 522
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  • Review of "Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution, by Mary Lucille Sullivan."
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Feminist Economics
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 216-218
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  • Review of "Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life, by Moni Nag."
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Economic Development and Cultural Change
    Volume: 57
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 200-203
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Reports

  • Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation: Using Handedness
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 3537
    Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)(Bonn)
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Publications in 2007

Reports

  • Handedness, Time Use and Early Childhood Development
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 2752
    Publisher: IZA(Bonn)
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  • Prostitutes and Brides
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Sex Work and Infection: What's Law Enforcement Got to Do With it?
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Political Economy
    Volume: 113
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 518-550
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