I am an Associate Professor of Economics and Gibbons Research Professor at Bentley University, where I have been since 2017. Before that I was a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

I grew up in Türkiye and earned my PhD in economics from the City University of New York in 2016. I moved to Boston the same year and have been failing to qualify for the city’s marathon every year since.