Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, University of Houston

Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

 


Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

University of Houston
Department of Economics
McElhinney Building, Room 246
Office Phone: +1-713-743-3818
Office Fax: +1-713-743-3798
Houston, TX 77004
E-mail:  makbulut@mail.uh.edu

until 08/2009:
Institute for Labor Studies (IZA)
Schaumburg-Lippe Str. 7/9
Bonn, Germany 53113
Office Phone:+49-228-3894-524

Research

My fields of interest include Labor Economics, Development Economics and Health Economics.

Working Papers

Left Behind: Intergenerational Mobility of Schooling and Health in the Midst of HIV (with Belgi Turan) (will be presented at Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), New York, 2008)

The Effect of English Proficiency among Childhood Immigrants: Are Hispanics Different? (with Hoyt Bleakley and Aimee Chin), University of Houston, Mimeo, September 2007

Intergenerational Transmission of Health in the US among Natives and Immigrants (with Adriana Kugler), University of Houston, Mimeo, May 2007 (presented at Royal Economic Society Conference, Warwick, UK, March 2008)

Does Compulsory Schooling Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings? Revisited , University of Houston, Mimeo, January 2007

Research in Progress

The Long Run Effects of WWII Destruction on German Households (will be presented at Third IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Rabat, Morocco, May 2008)

The Intergenerational Effects of Maternal Schooling on Childhood Health: Evidence from a Large Scale Education Program in Nigeria (with Javier Baez)

Language Human Capital and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Immigrants

Teaching

Principle of Microeconomics, Fall 2007 ** Click for Syllabus**

Principle of Macroeconomics, Spring 2007 ** Click for Syllabus**


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