Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

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• MEHMET ESKİN

Turkey has one of the widest male–female employment gaps in the world. The post-1950 interplay between economic growth strategies and the male-breadwinner family led to distinct gendered labor market outcomes in the import-substitution versus the export-led growth periods. Examination of aggregate employment data in t…

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• HATİCE AYŞE HOŞGÖR

Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered is an invaluable compendium not only for academics and researchers, but also for policymakers and practitioners working i...

In this study, micro implications of remittances are examined based on the data from the 1996 Turkish International Migration Survey (TIMS-96), part of a comprehensive study of Eurostat and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). Results of the study imply that migrant savings are generally use…

Do mandatory spending programs such as Medicare improve efficiency? We analyze a model with two parties allocating a fixed budget to a public good and private transfers each period over an infinite horizon. We compare two institutions that differ in whether public good spending is discretionary or mandatory. We model…

Can we argue that pressures generated from grassroots politics are responsible for the rapid expansion and ethnically/racially uneven distribution of social assistance programs in emerging economies? This article analyzes the Turkish case and shows that social assistance programs in Turkey are directed disproportionat…

• ERDEM YÖRÜK

We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when the children are just 7–8 years old. This correlation is only present…

• SEDA ERTAÇ GÜLER

We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when the children are just 7–8 years old. This correlation is only present…

• NAZLI BAYDAR

This paper uses a unique survey conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey to analyze men’s and women’s time use under lockdown. The study finds that while men’s participation in unpaid work increased, particularly for men who switched to working from home, the relative increase for women further widened the gen…

• EMEL MEMİŞ PARMAKSIZ
• İPEK İLKKARACAN AJAS

In view of the intense competition in the banking industry all over the world, managers of both commercial and public banks more and more are applying marketing strategy techniques in the operations. The use of marketing techniques in banking becomes even more important in developing country environments, as the suppl…