About

This profile was current as of 2019 when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community.

Maggie Triyana is a visiting assistant professor of economics at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and a former visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute. She specializes in development, health, and labor economics, with an emphasis on evaluating the effects of health interventions and social assistance programs in Southeast Asia. Much of her work focuses on the link between environmental factors in early life, human capital investments, and later life outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.

A key feature of her research is its emphasis on combining data sets to link them to economic theories on human capital. She is particularly interested in the policy implications of her research findings.

She has been published in the Journal of Human Resources, BMC Public Health, BMJ Open, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Population Studies, and IZA Journal of Labor & Development.

Triyana is a former Indonesia Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellow the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. She previously worked as an assistant professor of economics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

She earned a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Chicago.