I am an Associate Director of Research, Senior Research Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, Associate Professor of Economics at King’s College London, Department of Political Economy, a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

I am also a co-founder of Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), which is the largest cross-country survey to collect detailed information on workers’ experiences and attitudes regarding remote work arrangements.

My research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, King’s College London, the British Academy, and the World Bank. I mainly work on economic inclusion, forced migration, the political economy of trust and economic implications of working from home.

My research has been covered by over 100 media outlets, including BBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Mirror, Reuters, The Daily Mail, The Economist, The Independent, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Times, Quartz, Vox, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and World Economic Forum.

In 2017, I completed my PhD in Economics at University of London, Royal Holloway College. I was a visiting researcher at Stanford University, Economics Department in Fall, 2022. I am the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Association of British Turkish Academics and was selected as a Leader of Tomorrow by The St. Gallen Foundation.

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Research interests

• Economics of Migration
• Labour Market Inequalities
• Political Economy

Teaching

• Causal Inference for Public Policy (Graduate Level).

  The module provides an introduction to instrumental variable estimation, the regression discontinuity design, difference-in-differences estimation, as well as the synthetic control method. Teaching consists of a weekly lecture, as well as seminars, and hands-on lab sessions. In the labs students apply methods of causal inference to various causal questions in the fields of economics, political economy, public policy and political science.

  All teaching material will be posted on Keats.

Publications

2023

• Time Savings When Working from Home, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings (with Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zarate). View Becker Friedman Institute Working Paper. Featured in Bloomberg, Boston.com, Business Insider, El Confidencial, Euronews, Forbes, Fortune, the Times, VoxEU, WirtschaftsWoche

2022

• Working from Home Around the World, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (with Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zarate). View Slides, View NBER Working Paper, View IZA Working Paper. Featured in Becker Friedman Institute, Bloomberg, Deutsche Welle, EuroNews, Helsinki Times, Les Affaires, Los Angeles Times, MedyaScope TV, NPR, Observer, Spiegel, the National, the Sydney Morning Herald,7NEWS Australia

• Exposure to Transit Migration: Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Development Economics (2022) (with Nicolas Ajzenman and Sergei Guriev). View IZA Working Paper. Featured in VoxEU

• Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments, Forthcoming, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (with Christopher Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Mathias Dolls, and Lisa Windsteiger). View SSRN Working Paper, View CEPR Working Paper. Featured in VoxEU, VoxTalks Podcast, G7, the Conversation. View Pre-analysis Plan. View SSRN Working Paper, View CEPR Working Paper.

• Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2022) (with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka). View CEPR Working Paper. Featured in VoxEU.

2021

• Refugees’ and Irregular Migrants’ Self-selection into Europe, Journal of Development Economics (2021) (with Panu Poutvaara). View IZA Working Paper. Featured in Bloomberg, Business Insider, Deutsche Welle, Die Zeit, Reuters, VoxEU.

• Revenge of the Experts: Will COVID-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?, Journal of Public Economics (2021) (with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka). View NBER Working Paper. Featured in Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, New Zealand Herald, Times Higher Education, VoxEU, LSE Business Review, Phys.org, ProMarket.

• Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration, Journal of Development Economics (2021) (with Semih Tumen). View SSRN Working Paper.

• Robots and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Europe, European Economic Review (2021) (with Berkay Ozcan and Julia Philipp). View IZA Working Paper. Featured in The Independent, New Scientist, VoxEU, World Economic Forum.

2020

• Do Laws Shape Attitudes? Evidence from Same-sex Relationship Recognition Policies in Europe, European Economic Review (2020) (with Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, and Kevin Tran). View CEPR Working Paper. Featured in Psychology Today, VoxEU.

2019

• Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2019) (with Christopher S. Carpenter, Jeff Frank and Matt Huffman). View IZA Working Paper. Featured in Bloomberg, New Zealand Herald, Quartz, VoxEU, Washington Post, World Economic Forum

2018

• Sexual Orientation and Earnings: New Evidence from the United Kingdom, ILR Review (2018) (with Christopher S. Carpenter and Jeff Frank). View EBRD Working Paper Version. Featured in Harvard Business Review, IZA World of Labor, LSE Business Review, Quartz, VoxEU, World Economic Forum.

Working Papers

• (Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support, Accepted, Review of Economic Studies (with Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Martin Fiszbein, and Carlos Molina). View NBER Working Paper. Featured in the New York Times, the Week, VoxEU

• First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees, Accepted, Journal of Urban Economics (with Panu Poutvaara and Felicitas Schikora). View IZA Working Paper. Featured in VoxEU.

• The Political Scar of Epidemics, Accepted, Economic Journal (with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka). View NBER Working Paper | Watch LSE Public Event. Featured in Anadolu Agency, BBC Turkey, Bloomberg, Daily Mail, Euro News, Financial Times, The Telegraph, VoxEU, Washington Post

• Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide, Accepted, Journal of Politics (with Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman). View NBER Working Paper. Featured in VoxEU, Wall Street Journal.

• Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity? | Pre-analysis Plan (with Antonio Cabrales, Mathias Dolls, Ruben Durante, and Lisa Windsteiger). View CEPR Working Paper. Featured in VoxEU.

• Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate (with Panu Poutvaara and Joop Adema). View CESifo Working Paper. Featured in Financial Times, Phys, VoxEU.

• Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (with Thomas Ginn). View World Bank Working Paper.

Refereeing

Academic Journals: Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Politics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, Management Science, Migration Studies, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, PLOS One, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Public Opinion Quarterly, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, World Development

Research Grants: British Academy, European Commission

Work in Progress

• Institutions Shape Culture: The Civic Imprint of Democracy (with Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Martin Fiszbein, and Carlos Molina)

• Attitudes towards Private and Public Debt: Does Language Matter? (with Mathias Dolls, Justyna Klejdysz, Andreas Peichl, and Lisa Windsteiger)

• Trusting Immigrants

Other Research Activities

Pre-PhD Publications

• The Effects of Unemployment on Fertility: Evidence from England* | The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2016) | DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2014-0127

*This manuscript has been awarded as the winner of the “Best PhD Paper Prize” by the University of London, Royal Holloway

Policy Publications

• “International Migration”, EBRD Transition Report 2018, Chapter 3 (with J. Michelle Brock, Francesca Dalla Pozza and Panu Poutvaara). View Full Report

• “Skills, Employment and Automation”, EBRD Transition Report 2018, Chapter 2 (with Yvonne Giesing, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva and Elisa Wirsching). View Full Report

• “Life Satisfaction in the Transition Region”, EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 1, pp. 10-22. View Full Report

• “Governance in the Transition Region”, EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 2, pp. 26-37. View Full Report

• “Gender in the Transition Region”, EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 3, pp. 40-49. View Full Report