I’m an economist who studies how public policies affect health and economic security, with a focus on aging populations, refugees, and families.

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

I grew up in Türkiye and earned my PhD in economics from the City University of New York in 2016. After a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, I joined Bentley University in 2017.