FIELDS OF INTEREST

Population Health, Public Policy, Social Protection.

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
(Under Review)

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

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 and Independent Research Fund Denmark .

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

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

RESEARCH PAPERS

ECONOMICS

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.

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.

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.

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.

OTHER DISCIPLINES

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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