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Welcome to the personal website of Nicole B. Simpson, Professor of Economics, at Colgate University. I am the W Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics at Colgate and the current department chair.  I have been an Economics professor at Colgate since 2001.  I received my MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Iowa,  and a BA in Economics at University of St Thomas (MN).  I am a research fellow at IZA and the GLO, and a former associate editor for the Eastern Economic Journal . Here is a link to my CV (updated October 2025) and a link to my bio.  I have an undergraduate textbook entitled the Economics of Immigration; the third edition comes out in late 2025. Updated instructor resources are available by contacting me. 

My research areas are: immigration, macroeconomics, the EITC, economics pedagogy, and education.

I teach the following courses: Economics of Immigration, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Introduction to Economics, Applied Economic Theory, Economics of Poverty, the Fed Challenge, Seminar in International Economics, European Economics Issues, British Economy, and a first-year seminar entitled the Causes and Consequences of Immigration. 

I run the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program at Colgate, I have led the London Economics Study Group three times (2007,  2011, and 2022). I directed an extended study to Argentina for the Benton Scholars Program (2013) and a Sophomore Residential Seminar in 2019-20 to the U.S.-Mexico border. I also coordinated the first Fed Challenge team at Colgate in 2013 and led the team between 2023 and 2025. 

I live in Hamilton, NY and am married to Brendt. We have two children, Thomas and Katelyn.