Published Papers
Economic Adversity and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Turkish Parliamentary Elections, (with H. Tastan and Ö. K. Masala), Social Indicators Research, 163(2): 799-821 (2022).
Revisiting income convergence in Turkey: Are there convergence clubs?, (with H. Tastan and Ö. K. Masala), Growth and Change, 50(3): 1185-1217 (2019).
Union Wage Compression and Skill Acquisition, Bulletin of Economic Research, 71(3): 313-341 (2019).
Structural Reforms and Growth in Developing Countries, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 22(4): 325-350 (2019).
Globalization and the Welfare State, (with G. Yay), Quality & Quantity, 52(3): 1015-1040 (2018).
Impact of institutions on entrepreneurship: a panel data analysis, (with T. Yay and G. Yay), Eurasian Economic Review, 8(1): 131-160 (2018).
The persistence-resilience trade-off in unemployment: the role of labour and product market institutions, (with Paolo Manasse), in: Manasse, P. and Katsikas, D. (Eds.), Economic Crisis and Structural Reforms in Southern Europe: Policy Lessons, Routledge, London/New York, 56-83 (2018) [VoxEU column]
Why Do Labor Standards Differ Across Muslim Countries?, (with Ö. K. Masala), in: Yenilmez, F. and Kılıç, E. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Unemployment and Labor Market Sustainability in the Era of Globalization, IGI Global (2017).
Revisiting FDI-led growth hypothesis: the role of sector characteristics, (with F. Gönel), Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 25(8): 1144-1166 (2016).
How Green is my Industry? The Case of Turkey, (with F. Gönel), World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 12(2): 119- 128 (2015).
Liberalization and Greenhouse Gases Emissions in the EU-10, (with F. Gönel and N. B. Vardar), World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 10(4): 288-296 (2013).
Technology and Demand for Skilled Labor in Turkish Private Manufacturing Industries, Panoeconomicus, 56(2): 261-279 (2009).
Working Papers
Divorce and Suicide: A subnational analysis in Turkey (with B. Yerlikaya)
This paper investigates the relationship between divorce and suicide in Turkey. To this end, we employ province-level data between 2008-2017 and estimate two-way fixed-effect models. We find that divorce is positively correlated with suicide, with greater effects for males than females. However, the coefficient estimate of divorce on suicide is smaller for the prime working-age group. Divorce also has an indirect impact on suicide through income and unemployment. Accordingly, low income and high unemployment exacerbate the effect of divorce on suicide. Finally, results indicate that divorce increases the skilled male suicide rate and unskilled female suicide rate. These results are robust to several sensitivity analyses. This study's main policy implication is that divorce prevention could be more effective than other factors to decrease suicide mortality.
This paper has received the 2020 Ibn Khaldun Prize from the Middle East Economic Association.
Work in Progress
Decomposition of Poverty Across Turkish Regions
Education and Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey, (with S. Elif Filiz)
Intergenerational Social Mobility in Turkey, (with B. Unveren)
Papers in Turkish Journals
Mutluluk ve Kurumsal Gelisme, Erciyes Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 56: 19-36 (2020) .
Türk Bankacılıgında Rekabet ve İstikrar, (with Murat Donduran), Finans Politik & Ekonomik Yorumlar, 651: 133-147 (2020).
Does human capital shortage cause inequality? Evidence from Turkish provinces, (with F. Gönel), Ege Academic Review, 16(2): 227-240 (2016).
Ekonomik Bir Sistem Olarak Refah Devleti, Sakarya İktisat Dergisi, 5(3): 54-62 (2016).
The Political Economy of Structural Reforms Ekonomi-tek, 5(1): 25-69 (2016).
Belirsizlik Altinda Karar Alma: Geleneksel ve Modern Yaklasımlar, (with Işıl Şahin), İktisat Politikası Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2: 1-28 (2015).