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Simon Franklin

    Queen Mary University of London

He is a research affiliate at CEPR (development and labour groups) and at JPAL. He studied at the University of Cape Town at the undergraduate level and spent time working at SALDRU. He received his DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he remains a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies. He is an affiliate at the CEP at the London School of Economics.

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Related Projects

  • Assisting Job Search in Low-Employment Communities

Related Publications

  • GLM|LIC Policy Brief No. 22

    Anonymity or Distance?
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 17

    Curse of Anonymity or Tyranny of Distance?
  • G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 49

    Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment
  • G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 59

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