Simon Burgess

Professor of Economics, University of Bristol

 

 

Simon Burgess is Professor of Economics in the University of Bristol. He was the Director of The Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) from 2004 to 2015 and also the Director of The Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change (CUBeC) from 2010 to 2014.

 

He is also a Visiting Professor at LSE through CASE, and a Research Fellow at Centre for Economic Policy Research and Institute for the Study of Labor. Previously he has worked on the analysis of poverty and household income dynamics, incentives in organisations, and employment and unemployment dynamics.

 

A labour economist, his current research interests are in the economics of education, including market-based education reforms such as school performance tables, school accountability, choice and competition, admissions and unequal access to high-performing schools. He also works on ethnic segregation in schools, and the educational performance of minority students.