A. (Ade) Febriady, MSc

Ade Febriady is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Groningen (expected 2027) and a consultant economist at the World Bank, where he has worked for more than five years on applied poverty and welfare research. His research examines how childhood poverty shapes the returns to education in Indonesia, and how climate shocks — such as Mongolia's extreme winter disasters (dzud) — affect poverty and inequality. With World Bank teams, he has also designed, collected, and publicly disseminated large-scale household surveys.

Research fields
Primary: Development economics; Poverty & inequality; Labour & education economics; Climate shocks & household welfare.
Secondary: Behavioral & experimental economics; Applied microeconometrics.

Education

• PhD, Economics, University of Groningen, 2023–2027 (expected). Supervisors: Prof. dr. Viola Angelini and Dr. Agnieszka Postepska.
• MSc, Economics and Econometrics, University of Nottingham, 2017 (LPDP scholarship; Distinction at the research stage).
• BSc, Economics, Gadjah Mada University, 2015 (cum laude).

Working papers

• "The Long Shadow: Childhood Poverty and the Returns to Education" (with Agnieszka Postepska and Viola Angelini). GLO Discussion Paper No. 1731, 2026.
• "The Cold Shock: Poverty Impacts of Extreme Winter in Mongolia" (with Lydia Kim). Background paper for the World Bank 2026 Mongolia Poverty Assessment, work in progress.

Software

• kvpara: a Stata package for parametric Klein–Vella control-function estimation.

Professional experience

• Economist / Research Analyst (Consultant), The World Bank, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, 2019–present.
• Lecturer, Applied Econometrics, Prasetiya Mulya Business School, 2019–2022.
• Econometrics and Policy Analysis Specialist, TNP2K (National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction), Indonesia, 2017–2019.

More

• Personal website: https://febriady.github.io
• Full CV (PDF): [Ade_Febriady_CV_JobMarket.pdf]