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.
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.