Nicola Branson
Chief Research Officer at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), University of Cape Town
Nicola Branson is a Chief Research Officer at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), University of Cape Town. She is currently involved in quantitative research in education inequality and the consequences of teenage childbearing in South Africa using household survey data. Nicola holds a PhD (2011), a Master’s (2008) and a Bachelor’s of Business Science (2005) in Economics from UCT. She has experience in data cleaning, longitudinal surveys and in the micro-econometric analysis of social surveys. She has published work on human capital inequality in South Africa and trends in employment status using national household survey data.
