Nicola Branson

Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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