Hi,

I'm a PhD student of Research School of Economics, The Australian National University (ANU), under the supervision of Professor Xin Meng. My PhD research focuses on the intersection between gender and labor. In addition to my PhD projects, I'm also interested in topics related to digital financial inclusion, migration, and education. I'm also working at The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in Jakarta as a Post-doc Fellow for the Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative (IFII). 

During my PhD, I also served as a short-term consultant for the World Bank (the East Asia and Pacific region) and as a tutor for several courses at the College of Business and Economics of the ANU. I worked at the ANU Indonesia Project while I was pursuing a Master's degree in the International and Development Economics program, Crawford School, ANU. Before discovering my passion in development economics, I worked at The Central Bank of Indonesia as a regional macroeconomist and studied Industrial Engineering undergraduate program at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).


PhD Supervisory Panel

Professor Xin Meng (Chair), Professor Lisa Cameron, and Professor Martine Mariotti

Contact

Email: lolitamoorena@gmail.com, lmoorena@povertyactionlab.org


J-PAL SEA office:

Gd. Ali Wardhana Lt. 6

Jl. Salemba Raya No.4

Central Jakarta City, Jakarta 10430


ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0554-6138

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lolita-moorena-0a368135/

J-PAL SEA: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/person/moorena

X: https://x.com/lolitamoorena