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Rus’an is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics and Vice Director of the Postgraduate Program in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia. He is also a research associate at the Institute for Economic and Social Research (LPEM FEB UI). His research interests are development economics, impact evaluation, applied econometrics, and public policy. He currently works on the topics of food security, rural-urban migration, social capital development, education and well-being, tobacco economics and smoking among children, and monitoring the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 with the main focus on Indonesia. He has published papers in scientific journals such as World Development, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Happiness Studies, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Marine Policy, and Case Studies on Transport Policy, and many more. He is an active member of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) and the Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA). He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Universitas Indonesia, Master of International and Development Economics, and a Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University.