Professor Simon Burgess FBA
I study education using the tools of applied economics: schools (choice, competition, accountability), teachers (effectiveness, development, pay), and pupils (motivations, effort, ethnicity)
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2022
- Subjects
- Economics, Education
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History , Education
Current Post
University of Bristol Professor of Economics
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