Research
Publications
The early costs of plant closures: Evidence on lead effects on workers' subjective and objective outcomes, with Christoph Wunder. Journal of Economic and Behavior Organization, Volume 188, August 2021, Pages 489-505.
Life satisfaction favors reproduction. The universal positive effect of life satisfaction on childbearing in contemporary low fertility countries, with Letizia Mencarini, Daniele Vignoli, Jungho Kim. Plos One, 13(12), 2018.
Press coverage: The Economist
Elections and Subjective Living Conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa. African Development Review, 29: 545–561, 2017.
Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction, with Semih Tumen. International Journal of Manpower, 37(3), 426-455, 2016.
Previously circulated as IZA Discussion Paper No. 9505, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Working Paper No:15/5, Collegio Carlo Alberto Working Paper No:378.
Press coverage: Royal Economic Society.
Is Happiness Contagious? Separating Spillover Externalities from the Group-Level Social Context?, with Semih Tumen. Journal of Happiness Studies, 16(3), 719-744, 2015.
Previously circulated as MPRA Paper N.53184.
Day-of-the-Week Effects in Subjective Well-Being: Does Selectivity Matter?, with Semih Tumen. Social Indicators Research, vol.119(1), 139-162, Oct, 2014.
Previously circulated as MPRA Paper N.50475, Central Bank of Republic of Turkey Working Paper N.1338.
Home Ownership and Job Satisfaction, with Semih Tumen. Social Indicators Research, vol.117 (1), pages 165-177, May, 2014.
Previously circulated as Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Working Paper N.1322.
Working Papers
The causal impact of education on gender role attitudes: Evidence from European datasets, with Sumit Deole. R&R at IZA Research in Labor Economics