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Postdoctoral Fellow | 2024–2025

Nicholas Swanson

Postdoctoral Fellow | 2024–2025
King Center on Global Development

Nicholas Swanson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the King Center on Global Development. Prior to joining Stanford, he earned a PhD in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2024.

Swanson's research interests are in development, behavioral and labor economics. His research primarily studies the causes of low firm and worker productivity in low-income countries, and in particular the extent to which this stems from labor market frictions or behavioral biases. Most of his projects are located in Burundi or Zambia.