Associate professor at Queen Mary University of London. Interested in developing country cities, labour markets, public housing.
Joined November 2011
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🆕 Do public works programmes work?
In this episode of Economics Unpacked, @Manisha_econ (@AreBerkeley) and @SimondFranklin (@qmuleconomics) discuss NREGA in India, and PSNP in Ethiopia.
🔗 Link below ⤵️ @econfilm
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🆕 Low-cost housing for Africa’s cities
Today on VoxDev, @SimondFranklin (@qmuleconomics) discusses evidence from a large-scale housing lottery programme in Ethiopia: voxdev.org/topic/migration-u…
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Join us for the 7th QMUL Workshop for PhD Students & Post-Docs!
📅 May 22-23 | 📍QMUL
✨ Keynotes: Tim Besley & Martin Pesendorfer
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It's happening again!!🤩 The CFP of the 6th @qmuleconomics PhD & Post-doc Workshop is out. Apply by March 29th!👇🏼
🚨Hello #EconTwitter!
@qmuleconomics call for papers for our 6th PhD & Post-doc Workshop is now out🌐
Please apply by March 29th for two days of learning, discussions, and fun. We look forward to hosting you here in London on May 30th & 31st.
More info: shorturl.at/ijpH8
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Hi PhD students and Postdocs!
Make sure to apply to the workshop we organize at @qmuleconomics.
A brilliant opportunity to visit QMUL and get feedback on your paper (with keynote from @GUlyssea and @pauldegrauwe!)
More info in @Giulia_Toz's post 👇🏼
🚨Hello #EconTwitter!
@qmuleconomics call for papers for our 6th PhD & Post-doc Workshop is now out🌐
Please apply by March 29th for two days of learning, discussions, and fun. We look forward to hosting you here in London on May 30th & 31st.
More info: shorturl.at/ijpH8
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How do public works programs perform in cities? With @SimondFranklin, Girum Abebe, @mejiamantillac we have evaluated the Ethiopian UPSNP and found that urban public works can increase the welfare of the poor by 20%. voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
We address this problem by measuring *exposure* to the program through the network of commuting flows between all neighbourhoods before and after the program was rolled out. For this, we collected detailed commuting data for everyone in our sample, which is rare in this context.
Although the resulting approach looks similar to a shift-share design used in trade and migration economics, it’s rarely used in RCTs of social programs. Our approach yields significantly larger estimates than commonly used approaches. Wages increased by nearly 20% citywide.
A core insight of the paper is our approach to estimating those wage effects that addresses spatial spillovers -- potentially useful for researchers studying other social protection and labour policies.
The program was randomised across neighbourhoods within the city. The usual approach would be to compare wages between residents of treated versus untreated neighbourhoods. But these neighbourhoods are highly interconnected: residents of areas may work in treated areas.
We use data from a large survey of households, a randomized experiment at scale, and a spatial equilibrium model. We quantify i) the direct effects of program earnings on beneficiary households, ii) equilibrium wage effects, and iii) improvements in urban amenities from the work.
Very excited to see this summary come at @vox_dev. The accepted paper is also online at AER @AEAjournals this week [aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…].
The paper estimates the effects of a large public works program (UPSNP) on the urban poor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 🧵👇@clem_imbert
🆕 Fighting urban poverty: Public works increase the welfare of the poor in Addis Ababa by 20%
Simon Franklin @qmuleconomics, Clement Imbert @sciencespo, Girum Abebe @WorldBankAfrica & Carolina Mejia-Mantilla @wb_research outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
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Are you PhD/post-doc? Come to London to discuss your research at the 5th @qmuleconomics PhD & Post-doc Workshop on May 25-26! Submission deadline: March 31.
PS. we can also offer accomodation. shorturl.at/iGPV8 #EconTwitter @econ_conf
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Labor market interventions and social networks can interact and affect job search outcomes in unexpected ways. If you want to find out more, check out this short blog post about our paper "Searching with Friends" (forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics)
Job-search assistance can adversely affect individuals who do not receive help by weakening job-search networks.
Today on VoxDev, @caria_stefano @warwickecon, @SimondFranklin @qmuleconomics & @marcjosefwitte @iza_bonn outline their research in Ethiopia: ow.ly/2U3H50Nmmta
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Job-search assistance can adversely affect individuals who do not receive help by weakening job-search networks.
Today on VoxDev, @caria_stefano @warwickecon, @SimondFranklin @qmuleconomics & @marcjosefwitte @iza_bonn outline their research in Ethiopia: ow.ly/2U3H50Nmmta
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⚠️New call for proposals @GLMLIC⚠️Fantastic opportunity to implement great research🖥️. Please help to spread the news!!! @DavidLam_UMich @KateVyborny @elsayed_iza @taryndinkelman @PJakiela @ClareHofmeyr @OwenOzier @jannekepieters @caria_stefano @kanmahajan @SimondFranklin
📢📢 Call for proposals alert! Large- and small research grants are offered on issues related to gender, labor and growth in LICs. Deadline for submission is April 10, 2023. Check details here: g2lm-lic.iza.org/call-for-pr… We are looking forward to receiving many great proposals!
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🤗 First day at Queen Mary (@qmuleconomics)! 🤗
Very happy to join a fantastic applied group.
Can't wait to grab a "cup-of-tea" @Marco_Manacorda, @LucieGadenne , @fgerard_BE, Anna Raute, @SimondFranklin, @AnjaPrummer, @tesei_andrea, Sebastian Axbard (and everyone else around)