Since July 2014 I have been working as an economist in the South African public sector. I've remained affiliated to the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) and continue my intellectual work in my own time. I was previously a lecturer and PhD candidate in the School of Economics at UCT and briefly a senior researcher at the Development Policy Research Unit. I obtained my PhD in Economics at the end of 2014. All content on this website is strictly in my personal capacity.

The overarching theme of my personal/academic research concerns the scope and limitations of microeconometric methods, with a particular emphasis on the external validity of randomised trials, causal inference and public policy. Within this I have specific empirical interests in education and development.

In the area of my primary technical expertise, applied microeconometrics, I have also taken an interest in the estimation of intergenerational mobility - though my work in this area is irregular.

A second, separate research agenda, concerns foundational issues in microeconomics with a specific emphasis on characterisations of individual choice and empirical tests of the related assumptions or predictions.

Finally, I have draft papers on a number of topics in the philosophy of economics. These deal primarily with issues relating to causal inference, but at some point in the future I hope to expand the scope of this work to include analysis of economic and econometric methodology more broadly.

I can be contacted at: sean.muller{at}gmail.com