I am an applied microeconomist studying how public policies and institutional context shape health, economic security, and organizational outcomes. My research combines quasi-experimental methods with large-scale field experiments conducted in collaboration with public institutions and international organizations.

I am an invited researcher with J-PAL and IPA’s Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI) and the Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI), and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

I spent most of my early life in Turkey, where I completed my undergraduate studies in economics at Galatasaray University. I subsequently pursued a master’s degree at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. I received my PhD in Economics from the City University of New York in 2016 and then held a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies prior to joining Bentley University in 2017.