Nathan Fiala

University of Connecticut (Connecticut, USA)

Nathan Fiala is an Associate Professor jointly appointed with the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut. He received his P.hD. in economics from the University of California, Irvine.

Nathan’s research focuses on growth and development, which includes work on micro-enterprise development, cash grants, microfinance, business skills training, agricultural supply chains and community based anti-corruption programming. His methodological approaches include randomized control trials and behavioral lab-in-the-field experiments. He has conducted his research in several sub-Saharan Africa and Asian countries, including Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Myanmar and India, as well as Paraguay.