Simon Halliday is an associate professor of Economics Education in the School of Economics at the University of Bristol and was previously an assistant professor of economics at Smith College, MA, USA, and a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. He researches behavioral and experimental economics, with a focus on social preferences (reciprocity and social norms) and institutions (ratings, punishment, communication). He conducts work in applied microeconomics and data science in economics, such as a recent paper applying machine learning to a corpus of economics texts. He has a strong interest in research in economics education, particularly with respect to data literacy, data analysis, R, and more.
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