Research

Research Fields

  • Development Economics (primary)
  • Macroeconomics
  • Labor Economics
  • Gender and Development
  • Feminist Political Economy

Publications

  • 2026: Uneven Progress: Marital Status and the Motherhood Penalty, 1978–2023 (with Daniel MacDonald), Feminist Economics, forthcoming. 
  • 2025: Women’s Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: The Impact of Gendered Landownership Rights (with Ece Kocabıçak), World Development. (Link) (Paper)
  • 2025: Examining the Rise in Marriage Dissolution in Turkey: Demographic Shifts and Gender Dynamics, Social Politics. (Link) (Paper). 
  • 2022: The Effect of Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Women’s Fertility Preferences in Turkey, Population and Development Review. (Link ) (Paper_PDR)
  • 2021: Social Reproduction Feminism: Merits and Shortcomings of a Unitary Theory Approach, Praksis 57 (2021/3). (Paper_praksis)
  • 2021: Gendered Patterns of Industrialization in MENA, Middle East Development Journal 13(1): 128-129. (Link) (Paper)
  • 2021: Is Economic Empowerment a Protective Factor against Intimate Partner Violence? Evidence from Turkey, The European Journal of Development Research 33(6): 1695-1728. (Link) (Paper)
  • 2020: Gender Differences in Children’s Domestic Work: Evidence from Turkey, Politica Economica – Journal of Economic Policy 3: 365-388. (Link) (Paper)
  • 2020: Social and Psychological Determinants of Consumption: Evidence for the Lipstick Effect During the Great Recession (with Daniel P. MacDonald), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 86. (Link)(Paper)
  • 2020: Targeting Women’s Employment: Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Turkey. Review of Radical Political Economy 52 (1): 5-25. (Link) (Paper)
  • 2018: Married Women’s Economic Independence and Divorce in the 19th and early-20th Century U.S. (with Daniel P. MacDonald). Social Science History 42 (3): 601-629. (Link)(Paper)
  • 2015: Patriarchal Norms, Religion and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Turkey. World Development 76, 40-61. (Link) (Paper)

Working Papers

  • Structural Transformation, Gender Norms, and Care Deficits: Women’s Labor Force Participation in Türkiye, 1998–2018 (under review)
  • Who Finds Supervisory Care Meaningful? Gender and Education Gradients in Parental Well-Being (with Daniel MacDonald) (under review)
  • Who Moves and Who Stays? Unpacking the Role of Gendered Landownership in Shaping Rural-to-Urban Labor Migration (with Ece Kocabiçak and Sabina Yasmin) (under review)

Work in Progress

  • Unilateral Divorce Laws, Women’s Empowerment, and Domestic Violence in the MENA Region

Policy Briefs

  • 2024: The gendered impacts of deindustrialization in the Middle East and North Africa: Noria Research

Book Reviews

  • Kocabıçak, Ece (2023). The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South. Feminist Economics, DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2023.2216700.
  • Kocabıçak, Ece (2023). Küresel Güney’de Patriyarkanın Politik Ekonomisi, Mülkiye Dergisi, 47(1): 486-493.
  • Omar S. Dahi and Fırat Demir (2018). South-South Trade and Finance in The Twenty-First Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence. Review of Radical Political Economics, 51(2): 336-339.

Other Publications

California Home Ownership Study

Daniel MacDonald and I analyzed the relationship between homeownership and sociological factors such as health, education, crime and poverty in California in this study, which was commissioned by the Building Industry Association – Southern California. Click here to download the research report.

“Study Adds Social-Justice Dimension to Housing Crisis”, San Bernardino Sun Editorial, March 31, 2017

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