Research

Job Market Paper

1. A High-Resolution View of the Hinterland: Local Government Centralization and Rural Development in Turkey
   This paper examines the causal effects of Turkey’s 2012 metropolitan municipality reform (Law No. 6360) on rural development using a contiguous-border difference-in-differences design and newly constructed village-level boundary data.

Working Papers

1. Birthplace Favoritism Revisited: Replication, Modern Evidence, and Crisis Dynamics
   UQ School of Economics Discussion Paper Series, 2025.
   This paper extends the birthplace favoritism literature using a fully open-source framework and modern VIIRS night lights, with new evidence on immediate transition effects and crisis dynamics.

Works in Progress

1. Measuring Cognition at Scale: The Association Between Ramadan Exposure and Chess Performance
   This paper builds a move-level panel of approximately 16 million observations from 800,000 online chess games and estimates the association between Ramadan exposure and decision quality, move speed, and intraday behavior.

2. A Novel Integerisation Procedure for Population Data (with P. Wohland-Jakhar)
   Develops an integerisation method for IPF-based small-area estimation that reconciles integer and marginal constraints in sparse geographies, motivated by Indigenous population estimation in Queensland.

Conference Presentations

• 38th Annual PhD Conference in Economics and Business, ANU, November 2024.
  Presented: A High-Resolution View of the Hinterland: Local Government Centralization and Rural Development in Turkey.
• Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE), UNSW, August 2025.
  Presented: A High-Resolution View of the Hinterland: Local Government Centralization and Rural Development in Turkey.
• UQ Applied Micro Day, UQ, September 2025.
  Presented: Birthplace Favoritism Revisited: Replication, Modern Evidence, and Crisis Dynamics.