Simon D. Halliday

A brief comment to myself about the books I’ve read in 2018. My top three books were: [Read More]

The jobs report came out yesterday (7 July 2017) and I wanted to check out what the unemployment numbers look like by race, because, you know, I’m interested in race in the USA (see here). I couldn’t find a quick figure to compare the employment numbers across race groups, which... [Read More]

I’ve been interested in race and inequality (or “group inequality”) for some time (see the Background section. The recent publication of the 2013 Survey of Income and Participation presents a window into what wealth inequality looks like in the USA. What can we do with the survey data? [Read More]

I needed to re-do my website. But, I’m not particularly good at understanding html, github, and related issue. Nonetheless, even a dilettante like me was able to set up a jekyll-enabled site to replace my old site and add a blog. So, what outcomes did I want and how did... [Read More]

I saw the report by SAIRR (2017) and used by a friend in a Facebook discussion (you can get the report here). I didn’t believe the numbers he cited from the report, so I wanted to download the data and check them. The main data are from Africa (2016). I... [Read More]