Murat Iyigun

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Education

Ph.D. Economics, Brown University, 1995
M.A. Economics, Brown University, 1992
M.B.A. Finance and Economics, Boston University, 1991
B.S. Business Administration, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 1985

Regional and Thematic Interests

Economics of the Family • Economic Development & Growth • Political Economy • Cliometrics

Profile

Dr. Murat Iyigun a professor specializing in the economic of the family, economic development & growth and cliometrics. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany and a founding Fellow of the Association for Analytical Learning on Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). Prior to joining the faculty in 2000, he served as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Some of Professor Iyigun's research has been published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies and other leading journals. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Demographic Economics(JODE) published by Cambridge University Press. His general-interest book, "War Peace and Prosperity in the Name of God," will be available from the University of Chicago Press in March 2015.