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Biography
Meltem Dayıoğlu is a professor of
economics in the Department of Economics at TED University. She received her
PhD in Economics from Middle East Technical University in 1995, MA in Economics
from the University of Michigan in 1991 and BA in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan
University in 1989.
She started her academic career
at Middle East Technical University (METU). She was appointed as an assistant
professor in 1996, associate professor in 2006, and full professor in 2015. She
held various administrative positions at METU: She served as the Vice-Chair of
the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Associate Dean and Acting Dean of the
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, and Chair of the Department
of Economics. She spent her sabbatical leave at the University of Minnesota in
2002 and at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of
London in 2010. She retired from her position at METU in 2023 and joined TEDU
in the same year.
Dayıoğlu’s research interests
include labor economics, economics of education, wage inequality, income
distribution and poverty, migration, child labor and gender issues. Her work
generally involves quantitative analysis using large survey and register data.
Her most recent work is on forced
migration, looking at how Syrian children who have sought refuge in Turkey with
their families have fared in terms of schooling and child labor. Dayıoğlu’s
interest in migration issues precedes the Syrian migration in Turkey. She was a
member of a working group set up by the ILO on advancing labor migration
statistics. She contributed to developing independent survey instruments and
ad-hoc modules for household labor force surveys to measure labor migration in
source and destination countries. She has also contributed to ILO’s work in
developing survey instruments for measuring child labor. She produced reports
and academic papers on child labor in various developing countries and Turkey.
Dayıoğlu is also interested in impact evaluation. In a series of papers with
her co-authors, she analyzed how Turkey's 1997 compulsory schooling reform
impacted the gender and urban-rural schooling gap, teenage marriage and
childbearing, and child labor. Another research topic that she is interested in
is women’s labor market outcomes. Solo and with her co-authors, she has written
papers looking at the reasons behind the low participation rate of women, their
lower school attainment and the gender earnings gap. In another impact
evaluation study, with her co-author, she studied how higher education
expansion impacted women’s access to tertiary education and labor market
participation. Apart from the gender earnings gap, she has also worked on
poverty, child poverty, and poverty dynamics using panel data. She has recently
completed a TUBITAK project with a team of researchers looking at
socio-economic divides in early childhood development.
Dayıoğlu is a Research Fellow of
the Economic Research Forum in Cairo, Egypt and the Turkish Economic
Association, and a member of the advisory board of BETAM of Bahçeşehir
University. She has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International
Labor Organization (ILO) and UNICEF.
Contact
- meltem.dayioglu@tedu.edu.tr
- Web Page
- https://avesis.tedu.edu.tr/meltem.dayioglu
- Office Phone
- +90 312 585 0035
- Office
- D210
- Address
- meltem.dayioglu@tedu.edu.tr