Simon Franklin

Simon Franklin profile

J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Associate Professor

Queen Mary, University of London

Simon Franklin is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics at Queen Mary University of London. His work focuses on development, labor, and urban economics, with a geographic focus on African cities. Some of his past and ongoing projects include the economics of public housing, the effects of urban redevelopment policies, and spatial frictions in urban labour markets. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Oxford.