1. / IGC
  2. / About
  3. / People
A profile picture of Simon Franklin

Simon Franklin

  • Associate Professor
  • Queen Mary University of London

Roles

Lead academics

Research affiliates

Email

[email protected]

Simon Franklin is a Lead Academic for IGC Ethiopia.

Simon Franklin is an Associate Professor at Queen Mary University of London. He is from Cape Town, South Africa. His research focuses on urban labour markets, spatial frictions, and housing in developing countries. More information can be found on his personal website.

 

Projects

Image placeholder

Designing and targeting public employment programmes to improve long-term outcomes among the urban unemployed

Simon Franklin, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin 31 May 2026
Project
Image placeholder

Migrants and city growth: Evidence from Ethiopia

Marlon Seror, Simon Franklin, Clément Imbert, Yanos Zylberberg 31 Mar 2025
Project
Photo credit: Daggy J Ali via Unsplash.

Neighbourhoods of opportunity? Moving to public housing in Addis Ababa

Simon Franklin 1 Nov 2023
Project
Skyline of Kampala, Uganda. Photo credit: Omoo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cost effective panel data collection for Kampala

Gharad Bryan, Simon Franklin, Julia Bird, Astrid Haas
Project
Photo credit: Thomas White / CDKNetwork, CC BY 2.0.

Cost effective panel data collection

Julia Bird, Gharad Bryan, Simon Franklin, Astrid Haas 30 Sep 2018
Project
Image placeholder

Neighbourhood effects and social capital in urban housing: Evidence from random neighbourhood assignment

Berihu Assefa Gebrehiwot, Simon Franklin, Alebel Weldesilassie 31 Mar 2017
Project

Low cost housing for Africa's cities? The impact of the Government Condominium Scheme in Ethiopia

Berihu Assefa Gebrehiwot, Simon Franklin, Alebel Weldesilassie
Project

Assisting Job Search in Low-Employment Communities

Simon Quinn, Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin 31 Aug 2015
Project

All contributions

Cover page for journal article

Matching frictions and distorted beliefs: Evidence from a job fair experiment

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn, Forhad Shilpi The Economic Journal
Journal article

World Habitat Day 2017

Simon Franklin, Paul Collier, Julia Bird, Michael Blake, Nina Harari, Mila Friere, Priya Manwaring
Blog
Image placeholder

Curse of anonymity or tyranny of distance? (Working paper)

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn
Working paper
Today, Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa is a bustling centre of business and trade – as well as being home to the African Union's headquarters. Photo credit: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY 2.0.

Curse of anonymity or tyranny of distance? The impacts of job-search support in urban Ethiopia

Simon Franklin, Stefano Caria
Blog

Urban experimentation: How housing, transport, and infrastructure projects are revolutionising Addis Ababa

Julia Bird, Simon Franklin
Blog