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Mayang Rizky

PhD Candidate

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Biography

Mayang joined the Department of Political Economy as a PhD researcher in October 2022, fully funded by the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC/UKRI). She is also a recipient of International Doctoral Scholar Award from King’s College London which fully fund the difference between UK Home and International Tuition fees for her PhD study. Her PhD research project focuses on people’s attitudes and preferences towards regulation in the digital markets, especially in the area of competition policy.

Before joining King’s, Mayang has worked for several years as a quantitative researcher in an independent research institution in Indonesia, SMERU Research Institute, working on socioeconomic research issues and promoting evidence-based public policies. Mayang holds an MSc in Behavioural Economics from the University of Nottingham (2015) and BSc in Economics from Universitas Indonesia (2012). 

Research interests

  • Development economics
  • Individual and social preferences
  • Behavioural and experimental economics
  • Industrial organisation and competition policy
  • Digital market regulation
  • Applied econometrics
  • Applied microeconometrics

Doctoral research

Understanding citizens’ attitudes towards digital markets

PhD supervisors

Dr Christel Koop, Professor Christopher Townley, and Dr Noel Tarleton.

Latest publications

  • Rizky, M., D. Suryadarma, and A. Suryahadi. 2020. Progress and Stagnation in the Livelihood of Informal Workers in an Emerging Economy: Long-term Evidence from Indonesia. WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-143, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). Available: https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2020/900-6
  • Rizky, M., D. Suryadarma, and A. Suryahadi. 2020. Progress and Stagnation in the Livelihood of Informal Workers in an Emerging Economy: Long-term Evidence from Indonesia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-143, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). Available: https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2020/900-6
  • Rizky, M., D. Suryadarma, and A. Suryahadi. 2019. Effect of Growing Up Poor on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia. ADBI Working Paper 1002. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute. Available: https://www.adb.org/publications/effect-growing-poor-labor-market-outcomes-evidence-indonesia