Charles Siriban

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I am an economist with more than 10 years of research experience using various administrative and spatial datasets to address complex questions in demography and economic development.

I am a  Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Centre for Population Research, the University of Queensland working on research projects investigating the dynamics of internal migration and immigration in Australia.  I finished my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Melbourne last December 2022. During my Ph.D., I used administrative datasets from the Philippines and Canada to investigate the following questions on political economy of development: (i) how do non-partisan alliances in developing countries function as political organizations? and (ii) what is the role of lobbyists in politics in advanced democracies?

Before starting my Ph.D., I worked as an economic research associate at the Asian Institute of Management-Rizalino S. Navarro Policy Center for Competitiveness and the Philippine Human Development Network, and as an instructor at the Ateneo De Manila University.

Email:  c.siriban [at] uq [dot] edu [dot] au

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