Current PhD students:

Dominic Little (panel chair and primary supervisor, 2026—). Currently in Part A Coursework
Thi Hien Nguyen (panel member, 2026—). Currently in Part A Coursework
Pyan Muchtar (panel member, 2025—)
Ariska Rini (panel member, 2025—)
Maholopa (Maho) Laveil (panel chair and primary supervisor, 2025—)
- Maho has written much we have published on Devpolicy, worth checking out
- See his other work on his LinkedIn profile here.
Dyah (Prita) Pritadrajati (panel chair and primary supervisor, 2021–). Submitted and on the job market
- Recently completed a Yale Fox Fellowship, and her three main PhD thesis papers are:
  - Does social assistance disincentivise employment, job formality, and mobility? Labour Economics
  - Family size and domestic violence in a high-fertility society, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies
  - Care, career and kinship: effects of kindergarten on labour allocation and household dynamics, job market paper
- Please see Prita’s extensive other work on her Google Scholar profile (>500 cites!) or on LinkedIn.
Eko Sumando (panel member, 2021–)
- LinkedIn profile here. ANU profile linked above
Tanvir Bashar (panel member, 2020—). Submitted

Current teaching, S1 2027 (course convenor)

IDEC8011 Research Essay, S1 2020– [Course page]. This is the premier research-based course in applied economics at the ANU, where students write their own research paper as their approach the end of their masters’ degrees. Please note that I am not teaching this course in Semester One, 2026 due to conflicting commitments.
IDEC8033 Research Project, S1 2020– [Course page]. This is a two-semester version of IDEC8011, where students write a longer, more rigorous and detailed paper, more like a dissertation in the second year of their masters’ degrees. Please aim to take this course instead of IDEC8011 if you want to use the paper for potential PhD admissions. Please note that I am not teaching this course in Semester One, 2026 due to conflicting commitments.

Jose Cobian (Economics PhD). On the job market
1. LinkedIn profile here. Google Scholar profile
Nadine Marijke Oen (MRE 2024)
Mefilina Tohi (MRE 2024). Returned to the Reserve Bank of Tonga
Alyssa Leng (RP 2024). Existing Devpol colleague, now macroeconomist with CAPRED (Cambodia)
- Thesis: Narratives, information, and immigration policy preferences [blogs] [Guardian coverage] [AAP coverage] [ABC coverage] [ANU Media]
Thomas Wangi (Economics PhD). Placed NRI PNG
Debasish Das (Economics PhD) Placed Productivity Commission Economist then UNSW Lecturer
Riswandi (Economics PhD). Placed J-PAL SEA Postdoctoral Fellow
Phan Le (Economics PhD). Placed ANU Research Fellow
Hiroshi Maeda (RP 2022). Placed World Bank then JICA PNG
- Blog summarising thesis [plus, other blogs]
- Tongan Remittances: Channels, Costs, and the Potential Gains from Switching (post-thesis paper; blogs on this linked above)
Bobby Kunda (QPIE 2021). UPNG Lecturer
Ardhian Satya (MRE 2021)
Suhainti (MRE 2021)
Jollanda Mathew (Greg Taylor Scholar 2020). UPNG Lecturer
Tunye Qiu (MRE 2020). Currently ANU Economics PhD Candidate
April Zhou (Crawford Internship Program 2019—20). Currently UNSW Economics PhD Candidate
Kelly Samof (QPIE and Greg Taylor Scholar 2019). UPNG Lecturer
Shuhao Yang (MRE 2019)
Anita Faiziah (MRE 2019)

*Placements indicated for PhD and Masters’ dissertation students. Others are shorter, less intensive research projects

Empirical Development Policy for the Pacific, 2022– [Course page] (micro-crededential course, half the length of a normal course, on applied micro topics in the Pacific)
Economic Development in the Pacific, 2019— [Course page] [slides] (executive education course. these slides are an outdated but basic introduction to Pacific economies and what economists do these days)
IDEC9024 Economics Seminars, 2020—21 (required PhD Part A course)
Economics PhD Seminars, 2019—21 [guidelines] (Nb. guidelines are regularly updated)
ANU-UPNG Economics and Public Policy Summer School, 2020 [slides] (guest lecturer, these are some really basic intro to causal inference slides which may be helpful for beginners)