Paris Empirical Political Economics Seminar (PEPES) with Ceren Baysan (University of Toronto)

Ceren Baysan is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto (U of T) and an Adjunct Professor at Bahçeşehir University since 2022. Prior to joining U of T, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Essex for three years. She is also affiliated with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) , the International Growth Centre (IGC), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She was awarded a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in 2018.

Her research concentrates in development economics and political economy. She studies how extant institutions and institutional change interact with individual beliefs, perceptions, and preferences in societies to shape outcomes ranging from conflict to polarization, social integration, and economic behaviour. 

Ceren Baysan's website

She will present a paper, joint with Carlos Molina, Antonia Parades-Haz, and Gamze Zeki, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:

Demand for Gender Equality under Conservatism: Experimental Evidence from Elite Platform Shifts (read abstract, PDF 46 KB)

The next PEPES Seminar will host Elena ESPOSITO (University of Torino) on April 9th.