World War II Blues: The Long-lasting Mental Health Effect of Childhood Trauma (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Erdal Tekin). NBER Working Paper No. 30284. VOXEU COVERAGE. Forthcoming at Journal of Human Resources.
A Survey Experiment on How Legal Status of Nicotine Products Influences Young Adults’ Perceptions and Choices (with Asena Caner, Berna Tarı, Yenal Yi ğit, Donald S. Kenkel, Alan D. Mathios). Forthcoming at Southern Economic Journal.
Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion (with Mevlude-Akbulut Yuksel, Dozie Okoye), 2024. The Economic Journal, 134(657): 48-94. Pre-print version
Two Birds, One Stone: Minimum Wage and Child Labor (with M. Utku Ozmen). International Journal of Manpower. 46 (1): 168–196.
The Crime Effects of Refugees (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, and Semih Tumen). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. VOXEU COVERAGE
Exposure to Economic Distress during Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Seyit Mümin Cilasun and Erdal Tekin) 2024, Journal of Labor Research. IZA NEWSROOM COVERAGE.
The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality (with Semih Tumen), 2023., Empirical Economics.
Perceptions of plain packaging and health warnings among university students in Turkey: a survey-based experiment, (with Asena Caner, M. Yigit Gürdal, Sibel Güven). 2023, BMC Public Health, 23, 779.
Life Expectancy and Economic Development: Evidence from Micro Data, Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24(3): 949-972. Pre-print version, Online Appendix.
Left Behind: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel), Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(4), 1523–1547.
HIV and Fertility in Africa: First-Evidence from Population Based Surveys (with Chinhui Juhn and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan), Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(3): 835-853. VOXEU COVERAGE
HIV and Fertility Revisited (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan), Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96(1): 61-65.