

Nicholas Swanson
Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford's King Center on Global Development
Nicholas Swanson is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's King Center on Global Development. He received his PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 2024.
His research is in development economics, with a particular focus on topics in behavioral and labor economics.
Recent work by Nicholas Swanson
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Applying insights from psychology to help farmers plan and save for the future
A participant-centred planning intervention, that prompted farmers to think through all potential income and expenditures using categorisation and labelling, leads to smoother consumption across seasons, more savings and higher farm yields for Zambia...
Published 27.08.24
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Do short-term contracts limit investments in training workers?
Employers under-invest in training their employees in general skills. Evidence from rural Burundi shows that while there are large returns to providing training, these are not captured by the employer who invested in it due to short contract duration...
Published 28.06.24