Writing

Blog posts and occasional notes.

Posts from the older site, migrated into the Quarto rebuild.

Some thoughts on interviewing for a teaching-focused or LAC position

With the economics job market applications drawing to a close and interviews drawing nearer, I want to highlight some aspects of interviews that it appears to me may not be…

Simon D. Halliday

Online Teaching - In the context of COVID19

In the context of my college’s closure for in-person classes, I’m working on adapting my teaching to an online structure. A variety of people have already linked to some…

CTREE and TIER Meetings

I have been fortunate to attend a couple of conferences and meetings recently and to present work in progress as well as to meet with people in diverse fields – outside of…

Books in 2018

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

The July 2017 Jobs Report and Race

Scraping the BLS site to plot unemployment

Simon D. Halliday

Race and Wealth Inequality in the USA

Plotting data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (2013)

Simon D. Halliday

How to set up a site like mine

Even when you’re a dilettante

Simon D. Halliday

SAIRR Check

Some basic fact-checking

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