Belgi Turan

Our paper "Exposure to Economic Distress during Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes" (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Seyit Mümin Cilasun and Erdal Tekin) is now published in  Journal of Labor Research.  Link to the paper. 

Our paper "The Crime Effects of Refugees"  (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, and Semih Tumen) is now published in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.  Link to the paper. 

I will be presenting our paper "Crossing Borders: Unveiling the Transformative Influence of Exodus Women from Bulgaria on Turkish Women" at Seventh Annual Istanbul Meeting on Human Capital, Economics of Education, Health, and Worker Productivity on October 19, 2023 in Istanbul. 

Our paper "Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion" (with Mevlude-Akbulut Yuksel, Dozie Okoye), is now published in The Economic Journal, Link to the paper. 

I will be presenting our paper "World War II Blues: The Long-lasting Mental Health Effect of Childhood Trauma" at 6th Economics of Mental Health Workshop  on June 21, 2023  in London. 

Our paper "Perceptions of plain packaging among university students in Turkey: A survey- based experiment" (with Asena Caner, M. Yigit Gürdal, Sibel Güven) is now published in BMC Public Health. Link to the paper.

Our paper "The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality" (with Semih Tumen) is now published in Empirical Economics. Link to the paper.

Our new NBER Working Paper "The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress: In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes" (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Seyit Mümin Cilasun and Erdal Tekin). 

My PhD advisee M. Utku Özmen has won The Best PhD Thesis Award in 2022 from Turkish Economic Association (TEA). Link to his thesis.

Our new VoxEU column on the effect of war exposure on mental health. 

I will be presenting our paper "The Crime Effects of Refugees" ( with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, and Semih Tumen) at 6th Annual Meeting on Human Capital, Economics of Education, Health, and Worker Productivity on October 20, 2023 in Istanbul. Conference program. 

Our paper "Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion" (with Mevlude-Akbulut Yuksel, Dozie Okoye) is conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal. 

Our new NBER Working Paper "World War II Blues: The Long-lasting Mental Health Effect of Childhood Trauma" (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Erdal Tekin).  

Our new VoxEU column on the effect of refugees on crime.

Our new NBER Working Paper "The Crime Effect of Refugees" (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, and Semih Tumen).