Dr Simon Appleton joined the Unversity of Nottingham in the summer of 2000.His research interests lie primarily in the areas of poverty, labour markets, health and education, with application to China and sub-Saharan Africa. He is a research associate of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, and a member of 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.

1. “Should Teachers Stay at Home? The Impact of International Teacher Mobility” with W. John Morgan and Amanda Sives, Journal of International Development, 18 (6): 771-786, 2006.
   

2. “Why do girls in rural China have lower school enrolment”, with Lina Song and John Knight, World Development 34 (9): 1639-1653, 2006.
   
   

3. “Has China crossed the river? The evolution of wage structure in urban China during reform and retrenchment ” with Lina Song and Qingjie Xia, Journal of Comparative Economics, 33(4): 644-663, 2005.
   

4. “Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the Chinese labour market”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, with John Knight, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia, 2(3): 185-205, 2004.
   

5. “Regional or national poverty lines? The case of Uganda in the 1990s”, Journal of African Economies 12(4): 568-624, 2003.
   

6. " Reducing child malnutrition: how far does income growth take us?" with Harold Alderman, Lawrence Haddad, Lina Song and Johannes Yisehac, World Bank Economic Review 17(1): 107-132, 2003.
   

7. "Labour Retrenchment in China: Determinants and Consequences", with John Knight, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia, China Economic Review, 13(2-3): 275-299, 2002.
   

8. 'The rich are just like us, only richer': poverty functions or consumption functions?, Journal of African Economies, 10(4): 433-469, December 2001.

Other discussion papers can be downloaded from here.

L13604 Economic Development II
L14038 Income distribution and poverty
L14050 Development Policy Analysis
L14052 Development Microeconomics

A complete list of modules can be found here.

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