Professor Simon Burgess
Professor of Economics
Director, Centre for Market and Public Organisation
Contact Details
Tele: +44 (0)117 33 10764Email: Simon.Burgess@bristol.ac.uk
Office Hours: By appointment: contact Karen.Ireland@bristol.ac.uk
Room: 1.1, 2 Priory Road
Personal Web Page
CMPO bio
Teaching Units
ECON30065: Current Economic ProblemsResearch Interests
Simon Burgess's main research interests are in the fields of labour economics and poverty. He is currently working on: an economic model of poverty dynamics, empirical models of incentives in organisations, the role of markets in education and health, unemployment and gross job and worker flows. He is also working on spatial issues in labour markets.Recent Publications
For a full list of Simon Burgess's recent publications please go to his CMPO web page.
- Can school league tables help parents choose schools? (with Rebecca Allen), Fiscal Studies. Vol. 32 (2) pp. 245 – 262.
- Do teachers matter? Measuring the variation in teacher effectiveness in England. (with Helen Slater and Neil Davies), Forthcoming Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
- The dynamics of school attainment of England’s ethnic minorities. (with D. Wilson, A. Briggs) Forthcoming, Journal of Population Economics.
- Parental choice of primary school in England: what types of school do different types of family really have available to them? (with Anna Vignoles, Deborah Wilson and Ellen Greaves), Forthcoming Policy Studies.
Working Papers
- Raising your sights: the impact of friendship networks on educational aspirations (with Marcela Umaña-Aponte), CMPO Working Paper 11/271
- School ties: An analysis of homophily in an adolescent friendship network (with Eleanor Sanderson and Marcela Umaña-Aponte), CMPO Working Paper 11/267
- Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government agency (with Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto and Emma Tominey), CMPO Working Paper 11/265
- A natural experiment in school accountability: the impact of school performance information on pupil progress and sorting (with Deborah Wilson and Jack Worth), CMPO Working Paper 10/246
Related Links
Microeconomic Research at BristolCentre for Market and Public Organisation
Centre for Economic Performance
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion