Contact Information Institute for Advanced Studies Department of Economics Stumpergasse 56 A-1060 Vienna   Phone: +43 1 59991 156 Fax: +43 1 59991 163 E-mail: uysal@ihs.ac.at

 CV (pdf)

Publications and Work in Progress

• Unemployment Duration and Personality Traits, Journal of Economic Psychology, 32 (2011), pp. 980-992 (with Winfried Pohlmeier)

           http://www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages/a/actualite-profil-psychologique-du-chomeur-26891.php
                http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/05/24/what-kinds-of-personality-types-stay-unemployed/
                http://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/a-good-personality

• Doubly Robust Estimation of Causal Effects with Multivalued Treatments
• Job Search and Personality: Evidence from a Bayesian Factor Model, Center for PsychoEconomics, Working Paper, March 2011, with R. Piatek, W. Pohlmeier, and R. Seiberlich
• Shrink your Weight (with W. Pohlmeier, and R. Seiberlich)
• Doubly Robust IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effect, Working Paper, University of Konstanz
• Estimation of Causal Effects using doubly Robust Methods: An Analysis of Grade Retention on Educational Attainment, Working Paper, University of Konstanz

Education

University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

 Ph.D. in Economics

·         Thesis Topic: Three Essays on Doubly Robust Estimation Methods

·         Adviser: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier

·         Area of Study: Econometrics

M.A. in Economics

·         Thesis Topic: Estimating Treatment Effect with Mixed Methods

·         Adviser: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier

·         Area of Study: Quantitative Methods

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

B.A. in Economics

Academic Experience

Teaching Assistant                                     April 2007 to August 2011

University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

·        Undergraduate Courses

o   Econometrics I

o   Statistics II

·         Graduate Courses

o    Econometrics II (Master Level)

o    Microeconometrics (Master Level)

o    Advanced Econometrics (Master Level

o    Microeconometrics (PhD course

University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

·         Graduate Courses

o    Evaluation Econometrics (PhD Course), Winter Semester, 2009/10

Research Assistant                               September 2008 to August 2011

University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

·         Research Group Heterogeneous Labor: Positive and Normative Aspects of the Skill Structure of Labor

·         Center for Quantitative Methods and Survey Research (CMS)