FIELDS OF INTEREST

Economics of Health and Aging · Social Protection and Economic Security · Public Policy

ONGOING WORK

Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs: Evidence from a nationwide policy experiment.
Altindag, O., O’Connell, S.D., Achour, R. (2024).
Randomized Field Experiment funded by UNHCR Lebanon
Working Paper

Family Spillovers of Dementia.
Altindag, O., Greve, J., Truskinovsky, Y. (2025).
NBER Working Paper No. 34635.
Seed funding: HEADS Center and Bentley Research Council.
Full funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Business Networking and Social Cohesion: Experimental Evidence from Türkiye.
with Lydia Assouad, Ceren Baysan, Carlos Molina, and Miray Omurtak.
Randomized field experiment funded by JPAL DLI and SSHRC
(Endline data collection in progress)

Encouraging Formal Work: Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data in Jordan.
with Jade Siu, Diloá Athias, Aya Haidar, Monica Moughabghab, Silvia Nastasi, and Olivier Sterck.
Two randomized field experiments funded by ILO Jordan, conducted in collaboration with Social Security Corporation Jordan.
(Endline data collection in progress)

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Impact of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination on Hospitalizations and Human Capital: Evidence from Copenhagen School Health Records.
Altindag, O., Greve, J., Tekin, E. (2025).
Vaccines, 13(3), 302.

Public Health Policy At Scale: Impact of a Government-sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark.
Altindag, O., Greve, J., Tekin, E. (2024).
Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(3), 882-893.

Information on Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine in the Copenhagen School Health Records Register.
Altindag, O., Andersen, M., Baker, J., Greve, J., Tekin, E. (2024).
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 53(4), 383-390.

The Short-lived Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers to Refugees.
Altindag, O., O’Connell, S.D. (2023).
Journal of Development Economics, 160, 102942.

Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-specific Curfews in Turkey.
Altindag, O., Erten, B., Keskin, P. (2022).
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(2), 320-343.

Another Day, Another Visit: Impact of Arkansas’ Mandatory Waiting Period for Women Seeking an Abortion by Demographic Groups.
Altindag, O., Joyce, T. (2022).
Journal of Public Economics, 213, 104715.

Targeting Humanitarian Aid Using Administrative Data: Model Design and Validation.
Altindag, O., O’Connell, S.D., Sasmaz, A., Balcioglu, Z., Jerneck, M., Foong, A.K. (2021).
Journal of Development Economics, 148, 102564.

Do Refugees Impact Voting Behavior in the Host Country? Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows in Turkey.
Altindag, O., Kaushal, N. (2021).
Public Choice, 186, 149-178.

Blessing or Burden? The Impact of Refugees on Businesses and the Informal Economy.
Altindag, O., Bakis, O., Rozo, S. (2020).
Journal of Development Economics, 146, 102490.

Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Well-Being in the US Adult Population, 2010–2016.
Kobayashi, L., Altindag, O., Truskinovsky, Y., Berkman, L. (2019).
American Journal of Public Health, 109(9), 1236-1242.

Can Nonexperimental Methods Provide Unbiased Estimates of a Breastfeeding Intervention?: A Within-Study Comparison of Peer Counseling in Oregon.
Altindag, O., Joyce, T., Reeder, J.A. (2019).
Evaluation Review, 43(3-4), 152-188.

On Measuring and Reducing Selection Bias With a Quasi-Doubly Randomized Preference Trial. Joyce, T., Remler, D.K., Jaeger, D.A., Altindag, O., O’Connell, S.D., Crockett, S. (2017).
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 36(2), 438-459.

Judicial Bypass for Minors Seeking Abortions in Arkansas Versus Other States.
Altindag, O., Joyce, T. (2017).
American Journal of Public Health, 107(8), 1266-1271.

Son Preference, Fertility Decline, and the Nonmissing Girls of Turkey.
Altindag, O. (2016).
Demography, 53, 541-566.

Does Classroom Time Matter?
Joyce, T., Crockett, S., Jaeger, D.A., Altindag, O., O’Connell, S.D. (2015).
Economics of Education Review, 46, 64-77.

Telephone Peer Counseling of Breastfeeding Among WIC Participants: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Reeder, J.A., Joyce, T., Sibley, K., Arnold, D., Altindag, O. (2014).
Pediatrics, 134, e700-e709.