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Simon Burgess

Simon Burgess

Simon Burgess is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Simon is a labour economist. He completed his PhD in Oxford in 1987 with Steve Nickell. His current research interests are in the economics of education, including teacher effectiveness, pupil effort, school admissions, and market-based education reforms (such as school performance tables, school accountability, choice and competition). He also works on ethnic segregation in schools, and the educational performance of minority students. Previously, he worked on the analysis of poverty and household income dynamics, incentives in organisations, job tenure, employment and unemployment dynamics, and a few other topics.

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