Research

Publications

• Do Laws Shape Attitudes? Evidence from Same-sex Relationship Recognition Policies in Europe | European Economic Review (2020)

(with Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, and Kevin Tran) | View CEPR Working Paper

Media & policy portal coverage: Psychology Today, VoxEU

• Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK |  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2019)

(with Christopher S. Carpenter, Jeff Frank and Matt Huffman) | View IZA Working Paper

Media & policy portal coverage: Bloomberg, New Zealand Herald, Quartz, VoxEU, Washington Post, World Economic Forum

• Sexual Orientation and Earnings: New Evidence from the United Kingdom | ILR Review (2018)

(with Christopher S. Carpenter and Jeff Frank)  | View EBRD Working Paper Version

Media & policy portal coverage: Harvard Business Review, IZA World of Labor, LSE Business Review, Quartz, VoxEU, World Economic Forum

Working Papers

• The Political Scar of Epidemics

(with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka) | View NBER Working Paper | Watch LSE Public Event

Media & policy portal coverage: Anadolu Agency, BBC Turkey, Bloomberg, Daily Mail, Euro News, The Telegraph, VoxEU, Washington Post

• Revenge of the Experts: Will COVID-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?, Under review

(with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka) | View LSE Working Paper   

Media & policy portal coverage: Wall Street Journal, New Zealand Herald, Times Higher Education, VoxEU, LSE Business Review, Phys.org, ProMarket

• Robots and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Europe | View IZA Working Paper

(with Berkay Ozcan and Julia Philipp)

• Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide, Under review

(with Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman) | View NBER Working Paper | View CEPR Working Paper

Media & policy portal coverage: VoxEU, Wall Street Journal

• Refugees’ and Irregular Migrants’ Self-selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?, Under review

(with Panu Poutvaara) | View IZA Working Paper 

Media & policy portal coverage: Bloomberg, Business Insider, Deutsche Welle, Die Zeit, Reuters

• Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship, Under review

(with Nicolas Ajzenman and Sergei Guriev) | View IZA Working Paper

• Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration, Under review

(with Semih Tumen) | View IZA Working Paper

• Short-term Effects of House Prices on Birth Rates, View EBRD Working Paper, Under review

Media & policy portal coverage: Financial Times, Mirror, The Daily Mail, The Independent Online,  The Telegraph, The Times

Pre-PhD Publications

• The Effects of Unemployment on Fertility: Evidence from England* | The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2016) | DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2014-0127

*This manuscript has been awarded as the winner of the “Best PhD Paper Prize” by the University of London, Royal Holloway

Work in Progress

• First Time Around: Refugees’ Integration into the Labor Markets

(with Panu Poutvaara and Felicitas Schikora)

• Mobile Internet Access and Migration Intentions: Global Evidence

(with Panu Poutvaara and Joop Adema)

Policy Publications

• Aksoy, C. G. (2016). “Life Satisfaction in the Transition Region”, EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 1, pp. 10-22.
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• Aksoy, C. G. (2016). “Governance in the Transition Region”, EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 2, pp. 26-37.
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• Aksoy, C. G. (2016). “Gender in the Transition Region”, EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 3, pp. 40-49.
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