Dyah (Prita) Pritadrajati is a PhD candidate at the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Australian National University (ANU). Her research interests span labour and family economics at the intersection of gender, education, and social protection. She was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University (2024–25) and holds the ANU International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and HDR Merit Award for her doctoral studies. She is also a recipient of the PAFTAD Fellowship for Young Scholars. Her research has been published in Labour Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy, and the Asian Development Review, among others.

She received her MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge (2018) as a Jardine Foundation Scholar and an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford (2017) with support from the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP). She holds a BSc in Economics from Universitas Gadjah Mada (2015), where she graduated as Valedictorian and was selected as one of the Most Outstanding Students.

Prita will be on the job market in the 2025–26 cycle.

Contact: dyah.pritadrajati@anu.edu.au