Naci Mocan

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H. Naci Mocan is a Turkish-American economist and scholar. He is the Ourso Distinguished Chair of Economics at Louisiana State University. [1] He specializes in labor economics, health economics, and the economics of crime.

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Education and early life

Mocan was born in Istanbul, Turkey, where he attended Istanbul Erkek Lisesi. He studied economics at Bogazici University and received his Ph.D. in economics from Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [2]

Research

Mocan is a specialist in the areas of labor economics, health economics, and the economics of crime. In the early 2000s he became part of the debate on the effectiveness of the death penalty when his research found that the death penalty is a deterrent of crime. [3] He has also examined the effects of education in developing countries, including the impact that education has on female empowerment and religiosity and superstition. [4] He has used econometric tools to measure vengeance. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Naci Mocan". Louisiana State University. Archived from the original on February 19, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Nazi Mocan". Institute for the Study of Labor . Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ Liptak, Adam (2007-11-18). "Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2015-11-29.
  4. ↑ "Religiosity In Europe, The Glass Ceiling And Doctor Performance". FiveThirtyEight. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 2015-11-29.
  5. ↑ Cohen, Patricia (2008-07-29). "Calculating Economics of an Eye for an Eye". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2015-11-29.
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