Currently, my research areas include economics of charitable giving and fundraising, volunteering, and program evaluation. I have also published papers on index numbers theory and its applications on environmental economics and economics of growth and technological change. You may also want to check out my author page at ideas.repec.org.
A. Working papers
"Do fundraisers select charitable donors based on gender and race? Evidence from survey data", 2009, SUNY-Albany, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 09-01.
"The effect of media on charitable giving and volunteering: Evidence from the "Give Five" campaign", 2009, SUNY-Albany, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 09-02.
Chris Dillow discusses this paper in his blog. Read his 11/10/2009 dated article entitled "What media influence?" here.
B. Published papers
"Charitable giving by married couples revisited", 2009, forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources.
"How responsive are charitable donors to requests to give?", 2009, Journal of Public Economics, 93 (10), 1111-1117.
"The power of asking in volunteering: Evidence from a matched sample", 2008, Economics Letters, 99 (1), 79-84.
"International Regulations and Environmental Performance", 2008, Applied Economics, 40 (7), 807-822 (with O. Zaim).
"Negative Externalities, Productivity Growth, and the Catching up Hypothesis", 2007, Applied Economics Letters, 14 (6), 429-434.
"The Kuznets Curve and the Effect of International Regulations on Environmental Efficiency", 2006, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 17 (1), 1-7 (with O. Zaim).
"Productivity Growth in OECD Countries: A Comparison with Malmquist Indices", 2005, Journal of Comparative Economics, 33 (2), 401-420 (with O. Zaim).
"Measuring the Quality of Life in European Union: The Case of Turkey as a Candidate Country", 2003, International Journal of Social Economics, 30 (11), 1162-1176 (with O. Zaim).
C. Chapters in Edited Volumes
"Human
capital, innovation, and productivity growth: Tales from Latin America and
Caribbean", 2009, forthcoming in Progress in
Economics Research (A Tavidze eds.), Nova Science Publishers, NY.