Dr Susan Olivia
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Undergraduate Convenor, Economics
Keywords
Economic Development; Economics; Poverty
Applied Econometrics, Development Economics, Urban Economics, Geographic Information System (GIS), Spatial Econometrics, Indonesia, China
Qualifications: PhD
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/susanolivia/
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: MSB.2.11
Phone: +64 7 838 4112
Papers Taught
About Susan
Susan is a development economist whose research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of development, public economics, economic geography, microeconometrics and spatial econometrics. She has worked as a consultant to the World Bank and has previously taught at the University of Melbourne. Prior joining Waikato, Susan was the Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow in the Econometrics and Business Statistics Department at Monash University. Her recent and ongoing projects include an impact evaluation of community-led sanitation program in Indonesia, modelling economic activity in Indonesia from space, implications of quality, quantity and price for taxing unhealthy items, crowd-sourced price data collection, socio-economic impacts of floods on Jakarta and promoting good aquaculture practices among shrimp farmers in Vietnam. She has a PhD from the University of California, Davis.
Research Interests
Development Economics
Microeconometrics
Spatial Econometrics
Recent Publications
Gibson, J., Olivia, S., Boe-Gibson, G., & Li, C. (2021). Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?. Journal of Development Economics, 149, 12 pages. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102602
Gibson, J., & Olivia, S. (2020). Direct and indirect effects of Covid-19 on life expectancy and poverty in Indonesia. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 56(3), 325-344. doi:10.1080/00074918.2020.1847244
Gibson, J., Olivia, S., & Boe-Gibson, G. (2020). Night lights in Economics: Sources and uses. Journal of Economic Surveys, 34(5), 955-980. doi:10.1111/joes.12387
Olivia, S., Gibson, J., & Nasrudin, R. (2020). Indonesia in the time of Covid-19. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 56(2), 143-174. doi:10.1080/00074918.2020.1798581
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