Research - Bilge Erten

Bilge Erten
Assistant Professor

WORKING PAPERS

Gender and Development

Breaking the Cycle? Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence (with Pinar Keskin)
Also available as the Institute of for Economic Development at BU working paper #296, November 2017.
Accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
[Replication Files]
- VoxDev

Does Knowledge Empower? Education, Legal Awareness and Intimate Partner Violence (with Pinar Keskin)
Submitted.

Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
(with Pinar Keskin) Submitted.

The Gender of Caste: Identity, Political Reservations and Access to Water Resources in Rural India (with Pinar Keskin)
- Featured at the Harvard Kennedy School's Gender Action Portal. [under revision]

Trade-offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia (with Pinar Keskin)

International Economics

Exporting out of Agriculture: the Impact of WTO Accession on Structural Transformation in China (with Jessica Leight)
Accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
[Replication Files]

Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence (with Anton Korinek and José Antonio Ocampo)
Accepted at the Journal of Economic Literature.

Rethinking Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing in the Age of New Technologies (with Oliver Schwank)
Background paper for the Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2020.
Submitted.

PUBLICATIONS

Trade Liberalization and Local Labor Market Adjustment in South Africa (with Jessica Leight and Fiona Tregenna)

Journal of International Economics, 2019, 118: 448-467

[Online Appendix]

Compulsory Schooling for Whom? The Role of Gender, Poverty, and Religiosity (with Pinar Keskin)

Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72: 187-203.

The Real Exchange Rate, Structural Change, and Female Labor Force Participation (with Martina Metzger)

World Development, 2019, 117: 296–312.

For Better or for Worse? Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey (with Pinar Keskin)

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (1): 64-105.

[Online Appendix]. [Replication Files]

- VoxDev

Output Effects of Global Food Commodity Shocks (with Kerem Tuzcuoglu)

Journal of Globalization and Development, 2018, 9 (1): 1-18.

Macroeconomic Effects of Capital Account Regulations (with José Antonio Ocampo)

IMF Economic Review, 2017, 65 (2): 193–240.

Proposal for a Global Fund for Women through Innovative Finance (with Nilufer Cagatay)

Feminist Economics, 2017, 23 (4): 170-200.

Super Cycles of Commodity Prices since the Mid-Nineteenth Century (with José Antonio Ocampo)

World Development, 2013, 44, 14–30.

- Featured in Financial Times, Huffington Post, Bloomberg View, NPR's Marketplace, Western Producer

Macroeconomic Transmission of Eurozone Shocks to Emerging Economies

International Economics, 2012, 131, 43-70.

North-South Terms of Trade Trends from 1960 to 2006

International Review of Applied Economics, 2011, 25 (2): 171–184.