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Barış K. Yörük                                                                                                  Research

Published papers

  1. The effect of media on charitable giving and volunteering: Evidence from the "Give Five" campaign, forthcoming in Journal of Policy Analysis & Management.
  2. Do charitable solicitations matter? A comparative analysis of fundraising methods, forthcoming in Fiscal Studies.
  3. Fundraising and optimal policy rules,  forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic Theory (with M. Mungan).
  4. Do fundraisers select charitable donors based on race and gender? Evidence from survey data, 2012, Journal of Population Economics, 25, 219-243.
  5. The impact of legal drinking age laws on alcohol consumption, smoking, and marijuana use: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design using exact date of birth, 2011, Journal of Health Economics, 30, 740-752 (with C. Ertan Yörük).
  6. Charitable giving by married couples revisited, 2010, Journal of Human Resources, 45, 497-516.
  7. How responsive are charitable donors to requests to give?, 2009, Journal of Public Economics, 93, 1111-1117.
  8. The power of asking in volunteering: Evidence from a matched sample, 2008, Economics Letters, 99, 79-84.
  9. International regulations and environmental performance, 2008, Applied Economics, 40, 807-822 (with O. Zaim).
  10. Negative externalities, productivity growth, and the catching-up hypothesis, 2007, Applied Economics Letters, 14, 429-434.
  11. The Kuznets curve and the effect of international regulations on environmental efficiency, 2006, Economics Bulletin, 17, 1-7 (with O. Zaim).
  12. Productivity growth in OECD countries: A comparison with Malmquist indices, 2005, Journal of Comparative Economics, 33, 401-420 (with O. Zaim).
  13. Measuring the quality of life in European Union: The case of Turkey as a candidate country, 2003, International Journal of Social Economics, 30, 1162-1176 (with O. Zaim).

Chapters in edited books

  1. Working for free: Recent volunteering trends in the United States, 2011, Advances in Sociology Research, J.A. Jaworski (eds.), Nova Science, NY, 9, 219-231 (with C. Ertan).
  2. Human capital, innovation, and productivity growth: Tales from Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010, Progress in Economics Research, A. Tavidze (eds.), Nova Science, NY, 15, 135-152.

Papers under review

  1. The impact of charitable subsidies on religious giving and attendance: Evidence from panel data.
  2. The impact of drinking on psychological well-being: Evidence from minimum drinking age laws (with C. Ertan Yörük).
  3. Do charitable subsidies crowd out political giving? The missing link between charitable and political contributions.
  4. Are generous people more likely to vote?
  5. Does giving to charity lead to better health?
  6. Charity Ratings.