Margaret Triyana
Professor
Email: triyanm@wfu.edu
Kirby Hall 206
(336) 758-5335
Research Interests: At the intersection of development economics and human capital, with a focus on health.
Biography
Professor Triyana’s work uses both pre-existing data and field experiments. Her projects examine the link between health and education, and environmental shocks and human capital outcomes in Indonesia and the Philippines. Projects in the field analyze the link between health and education among children in Indonesia and strategies to improve well-being at the workplace in Bangladesh.
Professor Triyana has worked previously as an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, then as a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, followed by a position at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
Education
Professor Triyana received her B.A and M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
Courses
ECN 205: Intermediate Microeconomics
ECN 271: Economics of Global Health