Simon Appleton
Professor
School of Economics
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
China
Biography
Simon joined the University of Nottingham in the summer of 2000. Formerly, he was a lecturer at the University of Bath for one year and a Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University He is a member of the IZA, the Institute for Labour Economics. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of African Economies, the Journal of Development Studies and African Development Review. He has published in a range of journals including Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Journal of African Economies, the Journal of International Development, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and World Development.
Research Interest
Labour and human resources with application to China and sub-Saharan Africa. Currently working on a four year project for the UK Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council, entitled “Local Government, Economic Growth and Human Development: Chinese Lessons for Kenya and Uganda”.
Publications
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“International School Test Scores and Economic Growth†with Paul Atherton and Michael; Bleaney Bulletin of Economic Research, 65, 1, 82-90, 2012.
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"Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis," with Lina Song & Qingjie Xia, World Development, 62, 1-13,2014.
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“The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Tunisian Economy†with Samer Matta and Michael Bleaney, World Bank Economic Review 2016.
