Working Papers
Working Papers
"The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance." [Job Market Paper]
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"Imams and Businessmen: Non-State Service Provision by Islamist Movements" (with Fotini Christia). Under Review.
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"Members of the Same Club?: Subnational Variations in Electoral Returns to Public Goods."
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"The Education Dilemma: Favoring the In-Group or Assimilating the Out-Group"(with Asli Cansunar).
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Best Comparative Policy Paper Award, APSA Public Policy Section
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Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award, APSA MENA Politics Section
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Featured in the podcast series Rocking Our Priors and Governance Uncovered
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Featured in MIT News
Publications
“Combining Mobile Data and Satellite Imaging for Human Mobility” (with Asli Cansunar), in Data Science for Migration and Mobility (Salah, Korkmaz, Bircan, eds.), Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
"Assessing Syrian Refugee Integration Using Call Detail Records from Turkey" (with Fotini Christia, Constantinos Daskalakis, Elizabeth Harwood, Christos Papadimitriou), in Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (Salah, Pentland, Lepri, Letouze, Vinck, de Montjoye, Dong, eds.), Springer, 2019:223-249.
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"Enforcement Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey" (with Alisha Holland). Studies in Comparative International Development, 53(3): 300-323, August 2018 (Special Issue).
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"Policy Implications of the D4R Challenge" (with Salah et al.), in Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (Salah, Pentland, Lepri, Letouze, Vinck, de Montjoye, Dong, eds.), Springer, 2019:477-495.
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"The Geography of Gulenism in Turkey," Foreign Policy, 18 March 2019 (with Fotini Christia).
"Turkish Referendum Rallies in Europe Made Headlines. Did they Affect Election Results?" Monkey Cage/The Washington Post, 6 May 2017 (with Fotini Christia).
"Women and the welfare state regime of Turkey," Turkish Policy Quarterly, 11(4): 177-188, Winter 2013.