Research

I list my working papers and publications below.  

You can also see the abstracts of my work in each area by clicking on the following links.

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• High-Skill Immigration and International Students 

• Refugee Migration 

• Human Capital in Developing Countries 

Working Papers

• The Effects of High-Skill Immigration on Choice of College Major, Occupation, and Earnings             

      (Online Appendix)          (Supplementary Documentation)

• Child Growth and Refugee Status: Evidence From Syrian Migrants in Turkey  (joint with Andrew D. Foster & Murat G. Kırdar)                 

    (also released as EAF WP No 2208)

• Post-Compulsory Schooling of Youth in Turkey: A Case of Pro-cyclical Enrollment (with Meltem Poyraz)

• Maternal Education and Early Child Development: The Roles of Parental Support for Learning, Learning Materials, and Father Characteristics (with Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Pelin Akyol, Abduhrahman B. Aydemir & Murat G. Kırdar) 

    (also released as EAF WP No 2305)

Publications in International Journals

• Youth Responses to Political Populism: Education Abroad as a Step toward Emigration in Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(2), 653-673. 

• The Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Turkey in World Development, 2023, 162. (joint with Murat Güray Kırdar). 

• Development Level of Hosting Areas and the Impact of Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey in European Economic Review, 2022, 145. (joint with Doğu Tan Aracı & Murat Güray Kırdar)  

• International Students and Labour Market Outcomes of US-born Workers in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53(4), 1495-1522.       

• Transition of International Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Students to the US Labor Market: The Role of Visa Policy in Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57(3), 1367-91. 

• Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: US Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign IT Workers in Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2015, 15(1), 27-72.  (joint with John Bound, Gaurav Khanna, & Sarah Turner)                

     (also released as NBER Working Paper No 20505) 

Publications in National Journals

• Reasons for the Decline in the Population of Turkish Republic Citizens Pursuing Doctoral Education Abroad in METU Studies in Development, 2022, 49(2), 257-291.

• A Practitioner's Guide to Handling Irregularities Resulting from the 2014 Revisions to the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey in Boğaziçi Journal Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, 2021, 35(1), 1-25. (joint with Meltem Poyraz) 

• Education Abroad and Post-graduation Location Choices: An Inquiry on Turkish Republic Citizens studying in the United States of America in Journal of Higher Education and Science, 2020, 10(3), 404-413.

Book Chapters

• The Sensitivity of Empirical Applications to the 2014 Revisions to the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey in Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Economic and Financial Issues edited by Şahin Karabulut, Gazi Kitabevi, Ankara, 2021, 145-159. (joint with Meltem Poyraz)