Associate Prof of Economics, PhD @BostonCollege 🇺🇸, Alumni @sabanciu 🇹🇷, previously @ITAM_mx 🇲🇽. BJK 🦅
Ames, IA
Joined October 2019
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The Economics Department at Iowa State University is conducting a national and international search for Department Chair and Professor position. The job advertisement is below 👇 Please spread the word!
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Apparently Elsevier, for reasons that aren't apparent, decided to gut the editorial boards of GEB and I have also heard, JET.
This is one of those times where perhaps we should see this as opportunity. Let's face it, now more than ever, the commercial publishers have no moat.
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We're hiring! Come work at either Brown economics or jointly in Econ + the new Watson public policy school at the (experienced) assistant, associate, or full professor level
Target date for applications is Sep 7. EJM links below
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🚨 We are hiring at Columbia!
@ColumbiaSIPA is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in environmental, resource, and/or energy economics.
It is a very exciting time for env & energy economics at Columbia.
Please share widely!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/190500
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Everybody in economics publishing seems to worry about the AEA-Refine deal these days, but there are much bigger fish to fry in my view. A 🧵.
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🚨 NEW ECONOMICS JOURNAL 🚨
We are excited to announce the launch of The Review of Economic Studies: Insights, a new open-access journal in the REStud family.
Mission: publish concise, high-quality research on important questions across economics and economic policy.🧵1/13
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Neat proofreading idea with LLMs for manuscripts:
Ask your favorite AI to add its comments and concrete suggestions in "replyable comments" directly in the pdf.
That way, I can accept, reject, or edit the comments right in their context and control all edits.
Finally, the AI can implement the suggestions in latex based on the replies.
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Bu fotoğraf yanlış hatırlamıyorsam 2014 yılında Trabzon havaalanında çekildi. Yanınızdaki kızım. İlçe Başkanı olduğum dönemden kalma.
Bu çocuk 21 yaşında şimdi, üniversite öğrencisi. İki yıl önce ilk oyunu size vermiş ve göğsünü gere gere arkadaşlarına anlatıyordu.
Bugün telefonda; ‘Allah belasını versin Kılıçdaroğlu’nun’ dedi bana, durup dururken.
Umutlarını tükettiniz gençlerin. Yetmedi güvenimizi de sarstınız, ne söylesek inanmıyorlar artık. Başkası adına utanmayı çocuklarımız önünde yaşıyoruz, utançla…
Ne diyeyim;
Gün yüzü görmeyesiniz…
@kilicdarogluk
Bertan Turhan retweeted
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’na hain diyenlerin partiden ihraç edileceğine dair bir haber okudum. Bu vesileyle Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’na yalnızca hain demeyi yeterli bulmadığımı belirtmek istiyorum. Çünkü kendisi yalnızca hain değil aynı zamanda işbirlikçi, işgalci ve operasyoncu birisidir.
Devletin polisiyle partilileri karşı karşıya getirmekten imtina etmeyen, milyonlarca insanın iradesini gasp ederken bir an bile geri adım atmayan bu kişiye ne desek azdır. Böyle bir kişinin karşısında olup onunla mücadele etmek, tarihin bize yüklediği en doğru vazifelerden biridir.
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Biz senin ne kardeşin nede yol arkadaşınız.Senin kardeşlerin ve yol arkadaşların sarayın koridorlarında.Sana oy verenleri sattın ve sana vatan haini diyenlerle yol yürümeyi tercih ettin...
Sevgili Kardeşlerim, Değerli Yol Arkadaşlarım,
Bir Kurban Bayramı’na daha hazırlanırken; içimizde geçmişin muhasebesini, yüreğimizde ise geleceğin umudunu taşıyoruz.
Bayramlar; hakikate sımsıkı sarılmanın, kardeşliğin yıkılmaz köprüsünden yürüyerek birbirimize yeniden ulaşmanın günleridir.
Bizler; tohumları aynı toprağa savrulmuş, yorulanların gölgesinde dinlendiği, her esen rüzgârı birlikte göğüsleyen ve kökleri birbirine sımsıkı bağlı büyük bir çınarız.
Ne yalanlar ve iftiralar ne de aramıza örülmek istenen duvarlar, bu kardeşliği bozabilecektir.
Bizim en büyük gücümüz; dürüstlüğümüz, birbirimizin gözünün içine bakarken saklamadığımız o saf hakikat ve aynı yola duyduğumuz sarsılmaz inançtır.
Bu Kurban Bayramı; eksilmeyecek kardeşliğimizin, büyüyecek umudumuzun ve ortak mücadelemizin en güçlü işareti olsun.
Hepinize sağlık, huzur ve umut dolu bayramlar diliyorum.
Congratulations to the @IowaStateU Class of 2026! 🎓 Go forth and do great things.
LAS News: Bertan Turhan awarded research grant from Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council news.las.iastate.edu/2026/05…
Excited to share our new paper: "Reconciling Affirmative Action and Merit: Evidence and Design from India," joint work with @orhanaygun_boun .
India operates one of the world's largest affirmative action systems, directly shaping the life outcomes of tens of millions of people each year. Our paper analyzes this system through the lens of market design — and uncovers a fundamental legal tension at its core.
Two landmark Supreme Court rulings are at the heart of the story:
📌 Indra Sawhney (1992) established three foundational principles — the over-and-above principle, within-category fairness, and quota-filling subject to eligibility — which together uniquely characterize the assignment rule India has used for decades.
📌 Ashoka Kumar Thakur (2008) introduced an OBC eligibility cutoff tied to the open-category score and recommended converting unfilled OBC seats into open-category positions.
We show that these two judgments are mathematically incompatible: no assignment rule can simultaneously satisfy all the resulting axioms.
To resolve this, we:
✔ Characterize the unique rule implementing the Ashoka Kumar Thakur cutoff mandate (AKT rule) — and show it can be severely wasteful.
✔ Propose a family of soft-reserve rules satisfying the Indra Sawhney principles with OBC de-reservation, and prove that the Forward Transfer (FT) rule merit-dominates all others in this family.
✔ Introduce η*, a reinterpretation of the cutoff policy that eliminates the endogenous feedback loop, resolves the impossibility, and strictly improves upon FT in meritocratic terms.
The result is a clear merit ranking: η* ≻ FT ≻ other soft-reserve rules ≻ Indra Sawhney ≻ AKT.
All proposed rules are practically implementable within India's existing centralized admission platforms — no new data or infrastructure required.
Happy to share the paper with anyone interested!
@econD47 #india @January #economics #publicpolicy
@TurkishAirlines announced 23% discount yesterday for flights from USA for April23-24 to celebrate National Sovereignty dayof Turkiye. However, the promo code they provided did not work. @TurkishAirlines simply misled millions of people. Do you have any explanation @TurkishAirlines?
I have been working on developing better ways to implement affirmative action in admissions to higher education and government jobs in India, among other countries. Reservations in India have been a very contentious social and political issue for decades. A Congress MP and a former Chief Justice of India discuss the merit vs. reservations tradeoff in the short 12-minute video below. Very enlightening. (Thanks, @KritiManocha, for sharing it with me.)
#India #Reservations #affirmativeaction
youtube.com/watch?v=utpELrpn…
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At @NUEconomics, we have some amazing economics PhD's graduating this year interested in private sector jobs (not limited to the usual economic consulting track)
If you're hiring brilliant thinkers trained at one of the world's best economics programs, please DM or email
Very sad news :( John Kagel was a pioneer in experimental economics who influenced many. R.I.P.
