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3 years

Başarı şansı olmayan bu irrasyonel deneyi bir an önce terkedip Türk lirasının değerini koruyacak, Türk halkının refahını gözetecek kaliteli politikalara bir an önce dönmemiz gerekiyor. Bunu nasıl yapacağımızı yeniden hatırlamakta fayda var👇

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Personal update: I am delighted to share that I have joined Amazon as a Principal Economist. @AmazonScience I thank the Department of Economics at Louisiana State University for hosting me in Fall 2023 and for the excellent academic environment they provided. @LSU

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1970lerdeki öğrenci olayları, 1980 askeri darbesi ve o dönemde yaşanan toplumsal/siyasi kargaşanın Türkiye'de eğitim ve emek piyasası üzerindeki uzun vadeli etkilerini çalıştığımız makalemiz IZA Çalışma Tebliği olarak erişilebilir durumda

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Delighted to announce that my paper on the impact of Syrian refugees on the standardized test scores of Turkish adolescents is now forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics. IZA Discussion Paper version:

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İktisat ve Toplum Dergisi’nin Ocak sayısı için yazdığım ve “Yeni Ekonomik Modeli” değerlendiren yazıya aşağıdaki linkten erişilebilir. @iktisatoplum

Yeni Ekonomik Model: Sonu Belli Bir Macera – Semih Tümen

Kurdaki değer kaybı sektörel ihracat miktarlarında marjinal bazı avantajlar sağlasa da para biriminin uzun vadeli olarak değersizleşmesi ihracat kalitesini azaltarak üretim yapısını da olumsuz...

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Happy to announce that our paper "Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration" (with @cevatgirayaksoy ) is now forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics.

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Personal news: I'm joining Louisiana State University as a Visiting Professor of Economics. Looking forward to a productive academic visit and many fruitful interactions at @LSU . More (super exciting) personal news to follow in due course!

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We are excited to share that our paper examining the effectiveness of teacher training programs as a component of education integration policies (with @mvlass & @JackieWahba ) is accepted at the Journal of Human Resources. ( @J_HumanResource )

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Ponzi game…

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Very soon to be in circulation...

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Preliminary draft of our new paper "Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Attendance of Refugee Children" (w/ @mvlass & @JackieWahba ) is online. We argue that teachers play a key role in educational integration of refugee children👇

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2016-2021 döneminde "Gıda Komitesi" üzerinden enflasyon baskılama çabalarının genel makroiktisadi politika çerçevesine, fiyat istikrarına, kamu bütçesine ve tarım-hayvancılık sektörüne verdiği zararları bir vaka analizi olarak İktisat ve Toplum'un Nisan sayısı için kaleme aldım.

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İlk iktisat dersimi (econ101) aldığım çok kıymetli hocam 😔… Allah rahmet eylesin, iktisatçı camiamızın başı sağolsun.

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ODTÜ İktisat Bölümü’nün temel direklerinden birini, Prof Dr Fikret Şenses’i yitirdik. Hepimizin, iktisatçı câmiamızın başı sağolsun.

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Gerçek tanımını bilmeden tarihten saçma örneklerle #Chicago okulunu eleştiren, tarafıma da açık/örtülü atıfta bulunanlara cevabımdır. Chicago üniversitesinden üç hocam ve onların hocası: panomdaki bu fotoğraf bile müthiş ilham veriyor. Bu mensubiyetten ömür boyu gurur duyacağım.

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Today we hosted World Bank Vice Governor Ms Anna Bjerde and WB Turkey team at TED University. We discussed over lunch some of the most pressing issues for this generation such as #jobs , #climate , and #gender inequality. @WorldBankTurkey

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Bıkmadan yazacağım. Fiyat kontrolleriyle, vergi indirimleriyle enflasyon düşmez, sadece bütçe zayıflar. Binlerce fiyatı baskılamaya çalışmak yerine sadece kur ve beklentileri iyi yönetip gerisini piyasalara bırakmak en akılcı yol. Gary Becker 💛👇:

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Fiyat artışlarıyla mücadelede yeni destekler geliyor! Abdulkadir Selvi yazdı @abdulkdir_selvi

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Fresh from the oven paper on the causal effect of a panic button program on domestic violence against women in Turkey (w/ @DrUlucan ) Yes, it increased violence! May be surprising for the general audience, but no big surprise for the literature Full text coming soon as an IZA DP

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1/8) We start circulating the first draft of our new working paper “The Crime Effects of Refugees” (joint with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, and Belgi Turan). @MevludeAkbulut @belgi_turan Full text: A summary of the main findings is below 👇:

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1980 darbesinin o dönemde üniversite çağında bulunan nüfusumuz üzerindeki uzun vadeli etkilerini çalıştığımız makalemiz IZA Journal of Labor Economics'in "son" sayısında yayımlanacak. İlgilenenler için makalenin özeti aşağıda ( @Ozt_Ahmet ):

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At @TED_Uni Department of Economics, you actively collaborate with researchers, write good academic papers, and get placed into excellent PhD programs in Economics in the US and Europe with full scholarship. @FeasIibf @DoganayHusame

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İktisadın temellerini ve genel denge matematiğini onun kadar iyi bilen çok az iktisatçı tanıdım. Ekollere kategorik bakmayan, sürekli sorgulayan, gerçek bir bilim adamıydı. "...M. Friedman'ın hiçbir dediğiyle anlaşamam. Fakat, ondan fazla şey öğrendiğim çok az iktisatçı vardır."

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Bu gece bir ışık söndü. Türkiye için bir ışık söndü. ........ Prof. Dr. Tuncer Bulutay 1934-2021 @mulkiyeliler

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Our new paper "Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood" is now available as a CEPR discussion paper ( #15528 ). @VtBoucher @mvlass @JackieWahba @yveszenou1

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Our new working paper (w/ Elif Semra Ceylan) estimates the economic cost of #conflict in afflicted Arab countries (Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen) using night-time lights satellite imagery and GIS methods. Full text will be available very soon.

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I am pleased to join the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE as an Academic Editor (Economics). I strongly support the open access movement and unrestricted dissemination of research. #OpenAccess @PLOSONE @FeasIibf

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Yeni Ekonomik Modele dair eleştiri, görüş ve önerilerimi İktisat ve Toplum Dergisi’nin Ocak sayısı için yazdım. Yayım sonrası paylaşacağım. Bilinmedik şeyler değil, ancak yine de tarihe not düşmekte fayda var. Son zamanlardaki en keyifsiz yazı oldu benim için. #İktisatVeToplum

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Our paper "Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood" is in the AEA 2021 Conference program. Session details are given below. Really strong session on endogenous networks. Not to be missed for those who are interested in modeling, identifying, and estimating peer effects.

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New WP (w/ Meltem Dayioglu and @MuserrefKckbyrk ) estimating the impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education in Turkey is now available full text.

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Delivering the keynote address today at the Conference on " #Inclusion of young #refugees and migrants through education: Access, transitions and values" organized by the Ministry of National Education and the European Commission in Istanbul.

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Excellent paper on the economic foundations of popular international trade concepts such as "gravity," "iceberg costs," and more. Highly recommended.

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Trade declines with distance not only because shipping becomes costlier, but also because finding buyers far away is harder, from Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum, and Francis Kramarz

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Teaser for our new work “The effect of primary school construction on later outcomes” with @Ozt_Ahmet and @Hakan_Ercan . Full text will be available soon. #SchoolConstruction #Development #Education

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IZA Discussion Paper version of our new work "Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Attendance of Refugee Children" (w/ @mvlass & @JackieWahba ) is available online.👇 @iza_bonn (IZA DP #14557 )

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Published ahead of print at JHR: "Training teachers for diversity awareness: Impact on school outcomes of refugee children"

Training teachers for diversity awareness

Despite efforts to integrate refugee children into host country education systems, their low school attachment, poor academic performance, and high drop-out rates remain major policy challenges....

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Busy week! Another new WP (w/ Belgi Turan), which investigates the impact of fertility shocks on female labor supply in Turkey based on a twins instrument and focusing on informal employment aspect of developing-country labor markets, is now online 👇

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Our new paper “The Crime Effect of Refugees” is now available as an NBER Working Paper. @belgi_turan @MevludeAkbulut @nberpubs

The Crime Effect of Refugees

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A great start to the new year with the wonderful applied micro workshop program at @khasecon this week👇 ( @gozde_corekci , @cevatgirayaksoy , @CemOzguzel )

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Honored to receive the #D4R winning award in the data for refugees challenge for the education category @UniBogazici @TurkTelekom @Tubitak @FeasIibf #Refugees

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Presented work in progress about the impact of minimum wage hikes on consumer spending and loans (at Sabancı University).

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I'm visiting this week Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Economics to give a seminar talk about our recent work estimating the impact of a remedial program on the educational outcomes of Syrian children in Turkey (joint w/ Caglar Ozden and Serdar Polat).

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Our paper on education and labor market effects of the 1980 coup in Turkey (with Ahmet Ozturk) has received the Best Paper Award at the ERF Conference in Kuwait City. Delighted that our work is appreciated by the organizers. #ERF25 @ERFlatest Full text:

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Our new paper on the labor market effects of vocational education is now forthcoming in the International Journal of Manpower special issue on school-to-work transition. #VocationalEducation #SchoolToWorkTransition @FeasIibf

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Teaser for my new paper about the impact of refugees on PISA scores of native adolescents. Believe it or not, but the results confirm that refugees increase the intensity of human capital investment among Turkish youth. Draft coming very soon! #SyrianRefugees #PISA @FeasIibf

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Excellent review of recent papers on #refugee research Forced Displacement Literature Review (English) | The World Bank via @worldbank

Forced Displacement Literature Review : 2019-2020

The literature review compiled by the Joint Data Center (JDC) on Forced Displacement highlights recent publications, academic scholarship, and thought leadership on .

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Amazing multidisciplinary conference on #refugee integration in Istanbul this week (Friday) organized by @giz_gmbh et al. Program: I will broadly discuss labor market integration of forced migrants in Turkey with an emphasis on post-Covid19 developments.

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Presented our new work on the effectiveness of remedial refugee education interventions (with Serdar Polat) at the 2019 ERC Conference organized in honor of the 60th anniversary of METU Economics Dept. It is always a privilege to be lifelong member of the #METUEcon community.

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Our paper (w/ Meltem Dayioglu & @MuserrefKckbyrk ) estimating the causal effect of (abolishing) sub-minimum wages on young males' labor market and educational outcomes in Turkey is forthcoming in the International Journal of Manpower. WP Full text:

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Happy to present our work--which estimates the impact of randomized ethnic exposure on outcomes of pre-school refugee and native students--at the 2nd LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey (co-organized by @cevatgirayaksoy and @_OrkunSaka ) @LSE_SRC

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Will be pleased to present my work at the WB/UNHCR Forced Displacement Conference in Copenhagen next week. Excellent opportunity to catch up with the most recent work in forced displacement research. Progam link is below 👇 #Refugees

2020 Research Conference on Forced Displacement

Joint Data Center's Research Conference on Forced Displacement

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Amazing kickstart today to my “ #DataScience for Social Scientists” class. Very excited to delve into intensive coding, data-scientific causal inference techniques, and new developments in empirical work. @FeasIibf

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Exciting 2-day applied micro program ahead at Bahcesehir University. Thanks @NaciMocan for making the 5th of this event possible.

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Today I’ll present our new work (w/ @mvlass and @JackieWahba ), which estimates the impact of training teachers on refugee students’ school attendance/absenteeism. Details: “Training Teachers for Diversity”, 4pm TR time, American University of Cairo online seminar series. 👇

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Our VoxEU column "The Crime Effect of Refugees" is now online. #refugees @voxeu @cepr_org

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Mayıs 2014te Gary'nin vefatıyla sona eren "The Becker-Posner Blog" genç iktisatçılar için müthiş bir kaynak. Aşağıda 2008 krizinden günümüze ışık tutan bir örnek var. Bu blogdaki her bir yazıyı şiddetle öneriyorum Should the Fed Remain Independent? Becker

Should the Fed Remain Independent? Becker

Neither former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan nor the present Chairman Ben Bernanke anticipated the financial crisis that erupted in 2008. In addition, Greenspan helped keep interest rates low for...

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Asil ve muzaffer

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This week I'll talk at ITU Economics to present our new work "Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey" (w/ @mvlass , @JackieWahba , and @yveszenou1 ), which estimates the effects of randomized inter-group contact between native and refugee kids @ituecon

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The handbook chapter "Refugee Inflows and the Socioeconomic Outcomes of Natives" that I prepared for the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics is now online.

Refugee Inflows and the Socioeconomic Outcomes of Natives

Massive refugee inflows can significantly alter socioeconomic landscape in host countries. There is a rapidly expanding literature using unexpected movement of large crowds across boundaries to...

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Our paper "Product-level estimates of exchange rate pass-through: Evidence from Turkey," (with Emre, Meltem, and Ufuk)--documenting the patterns of ER pass-through using highly disaggregated data--is now forthcoming in The World Economy. Previous version:

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Good food and research talk go hand in hand in TEDU FEAS brown bag seminars. Today I presented preliminary results from my new work on informal networks in labor markets (w/ Binnur Balkan); first draft will be online soon. @FeasIibf

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Full text of my paper "The impact of low-skill refugees on youth education" is now available as an IZA Discussion Paper. Findings suggest an increase in natives' high school enrollment rates as refugee concentration goes up. #Refugees @iza_bonn @FeasIibf

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Now forthcoming in the Economics Letters: "Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools" (IZA DP #12235 ) via @iza_bonn @FeasIibf

Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools

Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 1...

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New WP alert: "Local governance and the environmental cost of forced migration" (w/ @cevatgirayaksoy ) Key message: Increasing local governance quality positively affects municipalities' capacity to tackle environmental challenges caused by refugee inflows Full text coming soon.

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This week I’ll give a talk on the role of central banks in mitigating climate risks—event jointly organized by @UofGAsbs and @The_RBWC as part of @COP26 . For full details and signup, see 👇:

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Our co-authored piece summarizing recent research on "Refugees and Host Economies" is now out as a G-20 Policy Brief. 👇

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TED University, Department of Economics is hiring: all ranks, multiple positions, any field, interviewing at the ASSA Meetings in San Diego. @FeasIibf

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Darbe sürecinde üniversite çağında (+-2/3 yaş) olanlar arasında üniversite mezuniyet oranı bir üst yaş grubuna göre 6-7 yüzde puan daha düşük. Gelişmekte olan bir ülkenin eğitim trendlerinde böylesine bir geri adım kabul edilemez.

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Ülkemizde kadın istihdamını ve fırsat eşitliğini gözeten AFD-TSKB projesine ilişkin konferansa katkı vermekten onur duydum. @TSKB_Turkey @AFD_France

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This week I'll speak at the KCP20+ event (the Conflicts and Migration panel) to be held at @WorldBank HQ in Washington DC. The event features "...dialogues on knowledge generation in international development that cross sectors, generations, and borders"

KCP 20+ Event Series

KCP 20+ Event Series: Celebrating 20 Years of the Knowledge for Change Program. The theme of the first event is

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Nothing is more inspiring than reading the professional memoir of Robert Lucas, a truly exceptional economist and human being. I am, once again, struck with the clarity of his thinking and writing.

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Excellent workshop program featuring cutting-edge research on multidimensional well-being implications of immigration: I will present our paper "The Crime Effect of Refugees." Dec 1-2, Istanbul, Turkish-German University @TAUiktisat @MigraIntegra

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Full text of our working paper "Empowered or Impoverished: The Impact of Panic Buttons on Domestic Violence" is available. ⬇️ @DrUlucan #DomesticAbuse #ViolenceAgainstWomen

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Our new paper on the education and labor market consequences of the #StudentProtests in late 1970s and the subsequent military coup in Turkey is now online as an IZA Discussion Paper #1980Coup #Turkey @iza_bonn

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Great kickoff to the #refugee integration conference and very interesting opening panel!

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Amazing multidisciplinary conference on #refugee integration in Istanbul this week (Friday) organized by @giz_gmbh et al. Program: I will broadly discuss labor market integration of forced migrants in Turkey with an emphasis on post-Covid19 developments.

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Bunun emek piyasasındaki karşılığı ortalamada daha kötü bir meslek ve daha düşük ücretler. Ülkenin beşeri sermaye stoğu ve uzun vadeli büyüme potansiyelinin aldığı zarar da cabası. #1980Darbesi #DarbelerK ötüdür

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Türk Telekom tarafından sağlanan baz istasyonu büyük verisiyle hazırladığımız Suriyeli mültecilerin eğitimine ilişkin çalışmayı sunmak üzere yarın @UniBogazici kampüsündeyiz. #D4R #Refugees #BigData @TurkTelekom

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EYS'de bu hafta mikroekonometri haftası. Mikro veri ve yarı deneysel yöntemler kullanarak nedensel mekanizmaları ekonometrik olarak tanımlama (Econometric Identification of Causal Mechanisms Using Micro Data and Quasi-Experimental Methods) konusunu tartışacağız @EysPau @FeasIibf

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Peki hangi hocalarımız var? Buyrunuz. 😊 Unutmadan, erken kayıtlar 22 mayısta başlıyor! ☺️ #ekonomiyazseminerleri

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TED Ankara Koleji’nde 19 Mayıs’ın 100. Yılını kutluyoruz. #MustafaKemalATATURK #19MAYIS2019 #100YIL @TEDAnkara @TED_Uni

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Today @MuserrefKckbyrk is presenting our co-authored work (with Meltem Dayioglu Tayfur) "The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education: A regression discontinuity analysis" at 26th ERF Conference webinar series. @ERFlatest 👇

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Delighted to be part of the program at the conference (Transformational Recovery: Seizing Opportunities from the Crisis) jointly organized by Bank Al-Maghrib, IMF, and IMF Economic Review in Rabat. 🇲🇦

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The IMF, IMF Economic Review, and @BankAlMaghrib are hosting a conference—Transformational Recovery: Seizing Opportunities from the Crisis on June 23-24 in Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦. 🖥️ Visit to see our line-up of virtual events and speakers.

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It's my pleasure to curate the JDC Quarterly Digest on "The Impact of Forced Displacement on Housing and Urban Settlement in Host Communities" Part I covers the key ideas Part II summarizes selected papers (by @zsarzin ) @Refugees @WorldBank #Refugees

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SGK ve YÖK mikro verileriyle bölüm bazında emek piyasası performansı analizi

Güneş Aşık

@gunesasik

5 years

Henüz üniversite bölüm tercihlerini yapmamış olanlar ve geçmiş bölüm seçimlerinin iş gücü piyasasındaki performansını merak edenler için Cumhurbaşkanlığı İnsan Kaynakları Ofisi Üniversite İstihdam Endeksi

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

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"6th Annual Istanbul Meeting on Human Capital" sets to kick off on Thursday. The program features a fantastic lineup of papers and scholars over 2 days. Not to be missed if you're into Labor - Education - HumanCapital topics on Türkiye. Full program:

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

Philippe Bacchetta from the Swiss Finance Institute and HEC Lausanne is giving the keynote speech at the TEDUTRC conference. Very interesting and timely topic. @FeasIibf @TEDUTRC

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

I'm flying to London this week to give a seminar talk at the EBRD. I'll present our work (w/ Caglar Ozden & Serdar Polat) aiming to estimate the causal effect of remedial education programs on #refugee children's Math & Turkish scores, absenteeism tendencies, and dropout rates.

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

4 years

#PLOSONE : How Assad changed population growth in Sweden and Norway: Syrian refugees’ impact on Nordic national and municipal demography

How Assad changed population growth in Sweden and Norway: Syrian refugees’ impact on Nordic...

In an increasingly interconnected world, the demographic effects of wars are not confined only to war zones and neighbouring areas; wars and conflicts may also change populations far away. Without...

journals.plos.org

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

Exciting ERF workshop in Cairo this weekend! I will present my new work on the impact of refugees on the PISA scores of native adolescents in Turkey. #Inequality #MENA #SyrianRefugees @ERFlatest @FeasIibf

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

Another exciting conference ahead: 12th Migration and Development Conference (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). Excellent collection of brand new work on the economics of migration. @AFD_en @WorldBank @FeasIibf

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

It makes great sense. Highly recommended.

NBER

@nberpubs

5 years

To measure a policy's effect, researchers often use regressions with county and year fixed effects, but this only works if an effect is constant across counties and years. This paper suggests a new method, from @CdeChaisemartin and Xavier D'Haultfoeuille

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

6 years

Join us tomorrow at 4.00pm.

TEDU FEAS/TEDÜ İİBF

@FeasIibf

6 years

Seminar by #TEDU Department of Economics member Assoc. Prof. Semih Tümen on "The impact of low-skill refugees on youth education" will be held on October 31, 2018.

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

1 year

I’m deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Bob Lucas. He was one of the greatest economists ever.

Tim Kehoe 🇺🇦

@TimTkehoe

1 year

Today is a sad day for economics. Robert E. Lucas, Jr., a great researcher and teacher died this morning.

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

6 years

I liked the idea of using forenames in referencing papers rather than surnames. Gives a feeling of warmth when you read the paper, even though you don’t know the authors @CeyhunElgin

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

3 years

Our new working paper brings a novel interpretation to the Turkish compulsory education reform literature 👇. Revised version is coming soon! @Ozt_Ahmet @Hakan_Ercan @ERFlatest

ERF

@ERFlatest

3 years

Check out ERF's working paper of December, 2021, titled" The Effect of Primary School Construction on Later Outcomes" by @Hakan_Ercan , @SemihTumen , and @Ozt_Ahmet

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

Social scientists have already started rigorously discussing post-conflict reconstruction and repatriation in afflicted Arab countries Next week I’ll be in Cairo to attend the ERF Workshop that features the most recent work in this field and launches the FEMISE report @ERFlatest

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

6 years

Looking forward to the 4th Human Capital Conference in Istanbul next week. The program brings together an exciting set of new work on labor and education issues in Turkey.

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

3 years

Fantastic article by Raghu Rajan on the unavoidable collapse of recklessly expansionary policies. …and, yes, there is no such thing as a free lunch. @ProSyn

The End of Free-Lunch Economics | by Raghuram G. Rajan - Project Syndicate

Raghuram G. Rajan sees the long-ignored bill for overly indulgent economic policies starting to come due.

www.project-syndicate.org

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

6 years

Satellite data suggest that GDP in #Syria is now back to early 90s levels in real terms. Physical destruction is around 50% on aggregate--above 90% in some heavy-conflict regions. I will present new results in the #ERF Workshop on Conflict, in #Casablanca next week. @FeasIibf

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

In a new short paper, I show that 'native flight' from public to private schools in response to increased refugee concentration in Turkey is substantially smaller than what the literature suggests. #SyrianRefugees #NativeFlight @iza_bonn @FeasIibf

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

That time of the year again! Departing for the ASSA Annual Meeting. If you're interested in the economics of forced migration and refugees, then don't miss the AEA Session on "Consequences of Forced Migration." #ASSA2020 #SanDiego

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

The IZA Discussion Paper version is now online.

Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

5 years

Fresh from the oven paper on the causal effect of a panic button program on domestic violence against women in Turkey (w/ @DrUlucan ) Yes, it increased violence! May be surprising for the general audience, but no big surprise for the literature Full text coming soon as an IZA DP

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

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Highly recommended book (to be available soon) We also contribute the book with a chapter on a data scientific analysis of the integration of Syrian kids into the education system in Turkey. Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios - #springer

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Semih Tumen

@SemihTumen

6 years

This week I'll present my new paper "The Impact of Low-Skill Refugees on Youth Education" at the "Conference on the Impacts of Refugees in the Hosting Economies" (14-15 Sep) hosted by @svrozo at @USCMarshall #Refugees #YouthEducation #LosAngeles @TED_Uni

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