Simon Halliday

• I am an associate professor of Economics Education in the School of Economics at the University of Bristol, UK.
• I was previously an assistant professor of economics at Smith College, MA, USA; a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, and lecturer at the University of Cape Town.
• I teach intermediate microeconomics, behavioral economics, development economics, the political economy of African development, introductory statistics and econometrics, and introductory microeconomics.
• I do research in behavioral and experimental economics, with a focus on social preferences (reciprocity and social norms) and institutions (ratings, punishment, communication).
• I also conduct work in applied microeconomics and data science in economcs, such as a recent paper applyng machine learning to a corpus of economics texts.
• I also have a strong interest in research in economics education, particularly with respect to data literacy, data analysis, R and more.

Research Interests:

• Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economics Education, Data Science in Economics

Education

• PhD: University of Siena, Italy, 2007-12
• MA (Creative Writing: Poetry), University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006-7
• M. Comm (Economics), UCT, 2005-6
• B. Com (Hons, Economics), UCT, 2004
• B. Soc. Sci (Economics & English Literature), UCT, 2001-2003

Books

• S. Bowles and S. D. Halliday, Microeconomics: Competition, Conflict and Coordination. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2021