Inga is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics within the UWA Business School. She holds a Master of Business (Finance) from Edith Cowan University, a PhD(Economics) from UWA and in 2021 became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Inga is an applied microeconomist, whose research is motivated by a deep curiosity about how our values, perceptions and emotions affect our behaviour as economic agents – and how this again affects how we feel about ourselves and our lives. Her research encompasses various aspects of economic psychology and behaviours, relating to health and well-being; financial literacy, capability and circumstances; trust and perceived agency; and gender issues. Her work has been published in several high-ranked international journals including Social Indicators Research, Journal of Economic Psychology, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Small Business Economics, and Health Promotion International. She is a passionate and enthusiastic educator, specialising in teaching large classes. She teaches micro-economics and economic research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students; and supervises honours, masters and PhD students.

Inga is presently Undergraduate Coordinator (Economics) within the Business School, a member of the UWA Business School Education Committee and is involved with the National Indigenous Business Summer School where she both teaches on the program and serves on the Academic Committee overseeing the program. During her time at UWA she has also served on the Board of Studies (Management and Commerce) and as a member of the ‘First Year Experience’ working party. She is a member of the Economics Society of Australia (ESA), and the Women in Economics Network (WEN).

Inga  currently teaches ECON1101 Microeconomics and ECON5514 Economic Research and Evaluation Methods. She is the Undergraduate Coordinator for Economics. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2021. She serves on the Academic Committee for the  National Indigenous Business Summer School School WA (Curtin University 2021; Murdoch University 2022; Notre Dame 2024).

Inga has acted as a referee for The Economic Record, Economics Letters, The Manchester School, The Australian Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics, the Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, the Journal of Happiness Studies, the Social Indicators Reserarch, the Southern Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Psychology, Plos One, and Economics and Philosophy. She supervises research students at honours, masters and PhD levels.

Currently teaching:

ECON1101 Microeconomics: Prices and Markets (ongoing)

ECON2271 Introductory Econometrics (2018-2021)

ECON5514 Economic Research and Evaluation Methods (2018, 2019, 2022; 2023; 2024)

Previously also been involved in teaching:

ECON1111 Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics

ECON2272 Mathematics for Economists

ECON1102 Macroeconomics: Money and Finance

ECON2234 Macroeconomcics: Policy and Applications

ECON2236 International Finance

ECON3365 Macroeconomic Theory

Mental health, health behaviours and subjective wellbeing; Trust, perceptions and attitudes; Economic and financial literacy, capabilities, preferences and behaviours; Gender issues

Recently accepted publications (forthcoming):

• Feng, W., Li., I., Kristoffersen, I.,  Armstrong, B.K., Preen, D.B. “Effect of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Quality-of-Life and Health Services Access by Socio-Economic Status in Australia” Health Promotion International (Accepted July 2024)
• Kristoffersen, I., Dockery, M.A., Li, I. Education and wellbeing. In Briguglio, M., Czap, N.V, and Laffan, K. (eds) Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action. Routledge publishing. (Invited book chapter; peer reviewed; expected to be published Aug 2024) 

Work currently under review:

• Gender-role attitudes and demand for child care services (with Varun Mehta and Ian Li)
• Intergenerational financial literacy transmission: Sources of bias using national survey data (with Paul Gerrans, UWABS)

Work in progress:

• Intergenerational transfer of financial literacy (with Paul Gerrans, UWABS; drafted).
• How does financial empowerment affect women's financial outcomes following separation and divorce? (sole-authored; drafted)
• Subjective versus objective equivalence scales for household income (sole-authored; drafted)
• Do women and men value earned and unearned incomes differently? (sole-authored; drafted).

2005-current: UWA Business School (Economics)
[Includes significant career breaks for parental leave in 2009/10 and 2013/14]
2001-2005: Edith Cowan University (Casual tutor and research assistant)