Biography
Maia joins King’s College London from the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and she has a PhD in Economics from Queen Mary, University of London. Before her PhD, Maia worked as an economist at HM Treasury, an ODI Fellow in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Madagascar, and the Macro-Fiscal Analysis Unit of the Liberian Ministry of Finance, and as a researcher and adviser at the ODI Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure.
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Research
Maia has academic and professional expertise in political economy, governance and institutions, public finance, aid and development, public economics, and social and economic networks. Her work in microeconomic theory looks at collective action problems in networked self-governing environments, and targeted carbon tax reforms in intersectoral production networks. She is a member of a research team working on the recent history of spending control in the UK Treasury, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and ESRC. Her recent research focuses on the effects of local agency and decision-making in foreign aid, and how localisation efforts within aid interventions could create space for local decision-making. This includes an impact project to develop a decision mapping tool for supporting localisation efforts in aid, funded by ESRC IAA and KCL.
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PhD Supervision
Maia welcomes PhD applications on topics closely related to her research interests, from applicants with at least two years of non-academic work experience. E-mails should include a research proposal, CV and information on timing and funding.
General enquiries about PhD study in DPE from applicants looking to return to academia following professional employment elsewhere are also welcome.
Latest publications
- With N Allouch (2021), Welfare targeting in networks Journal of Mathematical Economics
- (2020) Word-of-mouth centrality and the probabilities of node-to-node diffusion in fixed networks
- (2020) Why does local agency matter? Enabling the policy space for aid recipients
- With B Tarbush, A Teytelboym (2019), Targeted carbon tax reforms, European Economic Review
- With N Allouch (2019), Constrained public goods in networks, Journal of Public Economic Theory
- (2017), Whom can you trust? Reputation and co-operation in networks
Research
Quantitative Political Economy Research Group
The Quantitative Political Economy research group gathers economists and political scientists that are committed to bridging the two disciplines. The common ground is the study politics and policies with advanced quantitative methods and formal modeling.
Public Policy and Regulation Research Group
Public Policy and Regulation (PPR) is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.
Centre for British Politics and Government
The Centre for British Politics and Government are interested in the study of government and politics in the United Kingdom from an historical, political science, political theory and constitutional perspective.
Global South Research Group
The Global South research group brings together scholars engaged in research on international political and economic trends, non-European perspectives, and south-south comparisons.
Politics, Philosophy and Economics Research Group
The PPE research group studies questions spanning the disciplines of politics, philosophy, and economics.
Environment and Public Policy
The Environment and Public Policy Group
Social Equity and Social Welfare
The Social and Social Welfare subgroup delivers theoretically and empirically grounded research focused on gender and income inequality, social policy and social welfare, taxation, and redistribution.
A decision mapping tool for supporting localisation efforts in aid
A decision mapping tool for supporting localisation efforts in aid led by Dr Maia King at King's College London
Project status: Ongoing
Research
Quantitative Political Economy Research Group
The Quantitative Political Economy research group gathers economists and political scientists that are committed to bridging the two disciplines. The common ground is the study politics and policies with advanced quantitative methods and formal modeling.
Public Policy and Regulation Research Group
Public Policy and Regulation (PPR) is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.
Centre for British Politics and Government
The Centre for British Politics and Government are interested in the study of government and politics in the United Kingdom from an historical, political science, political theory and constitutional perspective.
Global South Research Group
The Global South research group brings together scholars engaged in research on international political and economic trends, non-European perspectives, and south-south comparisons.
Politics, Philosophy and Economics Research Group
The PPE research group studies questions spanning the disciplines of politics, philosophy, and economics.
Environment and Public Policy
The Environment and Public Policy Group
Social Equity and Social Welfare
The Social and Social Welfare subgroup delivers theoretically and empirically grounded research focused on gender and income inequality, social policy and social welfare, taxation, and redistribution.
A decision mapping tool for supporting localisation efforts in aid
A decision mapping tool for supporting localisation efforts in aid led by Dr Maia King at King's College London
Project status: Ongoing