I am Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Economics at the University of Stirling. I am also an IZA Research Fellow, and Researcher at the Centre for Population Change.
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My research partly focuses on Macroeconomics and Labour Economics, with particular interests in business cycles, wage determination, and inequality issues. I also work in the fields of Sports Economics and Prediction Markets, mostly using datasets form football (soccer) but also recently from cricket and tennis.

I am affiliated with two ongoing major ESRC/UKRI projects: Centre for Population Change & Wage and Employment Dynamics.

You can listen to me rambling on about sports economics and other things on a 2024 episode of the Beverage Report Podcast (LSE Department of Economics)
Some New Stuff in Winter 2025/26:

Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Sports, Economics, and Natural Experiments (submission deadline: 28 February --- event at Stirling in June)

MSc Programme Launched, as course director: Sport Business Analytics

2 x working papers: (i) Do Professionals Choke in the Face of Pressure and Distraction? ; (ii) The Hidden Effects of Company Strikes: Workers Made Idle in UK Engineering and Metalworking from 1920 to 1970

Much revised paper: Biased Returns to Tenure: The Impact of Firm-Specific Shocks on Base and Non-base Earnings (R&R at Industrial and Labor Relations Review)

​Accepted article: Looks and Gaming: Who and Why? in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Accepted article: Objective Calls under the Spotlight: Referee Consistency and Behaviour on Football’s Biggest Stage, in Journal of Sports Economics
Contact:
Economics Division, Stirling Business School, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, United Kingdom
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e-mail:  carl.singleton[at]stir.ac.uk
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