I’m an economist studying the economics of health and aging, social protection, and public policy, with research on long-term care, the economic consequences of dementia, and the welfare of refugees and displaced workers.

I am an invited researcher with J-PAL/IPA’s Displaced Livelihoods Initiative and Humanitarian Protection Initiative, a Research Affiliate at the Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease & Services (HEADS) Center, 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.