Selcen Cakir
@selcencakir.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Bogazici University
Researcher at University of Turku
Researching intra-party politics & online job boards
Researcher at University of Turku
Researching intra-party politics & online job boards
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes*
Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi
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October 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Public funds to Italian firms in disadvantaged areas (ex. Law 488/92) permanently increased employment, but allocation matters: Firms selected by objective rules create more jobs per € than those favored by local politicians. buff.ly/jcc6d6U
May 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Public funds to Italian firms in disadvantaged areas (ex. Law 488/92) permanently increased employment, but allocation matters: Firms selected by objective rules create more jobs per € than those favored by local politicians. buff.ly/jcc6d6U
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Big: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week afterschool program in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" ("equating to 1.5 to 2 years" of standard school)
May 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Big: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week afterschool program in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" ("equating to 1.5 to 2 years" of standard school)
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I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)
April 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)
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The effects of a political program in Brazil that addresses selection bias from program screening, self-selection into candidacy, and the need to quantify the contributions of selection and training in a holistic evaluation, from Dal Bó, Ferraz, Finan, and Pessoa https://www.nber.org/papers/w33251
December 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
The effects of a political program in Brazil that addresses selection bias from program screening, self-selection into candidacy, and the need to quantify the contributions of selection and training in a holistic evaluation, from Dal Bó, Ferraz, Finan, and Pessoa https://www.nber.org/papers/w33251