Simon Woodcock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He received a B.A. (1996) in Economics from Simon Fraser University, an M.A. (1998) in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. (2003) in Economics from Cornell University.

Prof. Woodcock’s research interests are in labour economics, panel data econometrics, and statistical disclosure limitation. His current research focuses on matching and sorting in the labour market; the role of information in school choice decisions; and inference-valid methods to protect confidentiality in longitudinal data.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2009.