FIELDS OF INTEREST

Population Health, Public Policy, Social Protection, Firms

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

Impact of MMR Vaccination on Human Capital: Evidence from Copenhagen School Health Records. with Jane Greve and Erdal Tekin.
Funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Impact of Parental Alzheimer’s Disease on Mental Health: A Nation- wide Study in Denmark.
with Jane Greve, and Yulya Truskinovsky.
Funded by HEADS Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Diversity, Integration, and Business Productivity.
with Lydia Assouad, Ceren Baysan, Carlos Molina, and Miray Omurtak.
Randomized field experiment funded by JPAL DLI.

Economic Incentives and Informational Approaches: Broadening Social Safety Net among Jordan’s SMEs.
with Diloá Jacob Bailey Athias, Shea McClanahan, Nada Rostom, Jade Siu, Olivier Sterck.
Randomized field experiment funded by ILO Jordan.

RESEARCH PAPERS (†: equal co-authorship)

Population Health & Public Health Policy

Information on Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine in the Copenhagen School Health Records Registery..
Altindag O., Andersen M., Baker J., Greve J., Tekin E.† (2024)
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

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.†

Public Health Policy At Scale: Impact of a Government-sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark.
Altindag, O., Greve, J., Tekin, E. (2022).
Review of Economics and Statistics, 1:36.†

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): 320-43.†

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

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, 1236-1271.†

Judicial Bypass for Minors Seeking Abortions in Arkansas Versus Other States.
Altindag, O., Joyce, T. (2017).
American Journal of Public Health, 109, 1236-1271.

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

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.

Social Protection and Humanitarian Public Policy

The short-lived effects of unconditional cash transfers to refugees.
Altindag, O., O’Connell S.D. (2023).
Journal of Development Economics, 160, 102942.†

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.†

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. (2020).
Journal of Development Economics, 148, 102564.

Blessing or Burden? The Impact of Refugees on Businesses and the Informal Economy.
Altindag, O., Bakis, O., Rozo, S. (2020).
Journal of Development Economics, 148, 102564.†

OTHER PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS

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, 438-459.

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.

NON-PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS

The Great Recession, Older Workers with Disabilities, and Implications for Retirement Security. Altindag, O., Schmidt, L., Sevak, P. (2012).
Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper, No. 2012-277.†

Unconditional Cash-based Assistance to the Poor: What do At-scale Programs Achieve? Altindag, O., O’Connell S.D., (2020). Permanent working paper.† An older and extended version of The short-lived effects of unconditional cash transfers to refugees