Rate My Professor Nathan Peng

Peng’s research examines poverty, inequality, and development in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on Singapore and Indonesia. He employs mixed methods including qualitative interviews, survey experiments, geospatial analysis, and regression techniques to study the political, social, and economic forces shaping long-term developmental outcomes. His publications include work on Singapore’s social compact and inequality, contributions to edited volumes on poverty and inequality in Southeast Asia, and a doctoral dissertation on the political economy of equality, development, and influence in Indonesia and Singapore. Peng has received the Core Curriculum Teaching Excellence Award and the Most Promising Teacher Award from Singapore Management University, as well as the Best Paper Award for Early-Career Scholar Work from the East Asian Social Policy Network and Social Policy Association. He has served as a collaborator on research grants related to social inequality and aging, and maintains affiliations with the Centre for the Study of Social Inequality and the Lien Center for Social Innovation.