CURRICULUM VITAE
Nur Banu Kartal
PhD in Economics
Research fields
Primary
Behavioural Economics
Microeconometrics
Secondary
Environmental Economics
Labour Economics
Education
PhD in Economics, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
MA in Economics, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
Exchange year, University of Lille1, 2017–2018
BA in Economics, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
Exchange semester, University of Lodz, Spring 2015
Research visits
ZEW Mannheim
University of Hohenheim
University of Gothenburg
Academic and professional experience
Research Assistant, Turkish-German University
Research Assistant, Beykent University
Research Assistant, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce
Publications
- “Stick and Stay, Make it Pay? Time Preferences and Marginal (Dis)utility of Relative Concerns,” with Alpaslan Akay. Social Indicators Research, 2026.
- “Do Patient Individuals Care Less About Status? Experimental Evidence,” with Alpaslan Akay. Forthcoming in Journal of Applied Economics, 2026.
- “Cognitive Skills and Employment Status: Is There a Gender Difference?” with Tolga Aksoy. Ekonomi-Tek, 2025.
Submitted / R&R
- “The Effort Behind Income Comparisons: Reference Income and Working Hours.” R&R, Applied Economics Letters, 2026.
- “Internal and External Control Beliefs and Calibration of Well-Being Forecasts,” with Alpaslan Akay. Under review, 2026.
- “Intertemporal Preferences and Forecast Errors in Well-Being Expectations: Evidence from Large-Scale Panel Data,” with Alpaslan Akay. Under review, 2026.
- “Keeping Up at the Planet’s Expense: Longitudinal Evidence on Relative Concerns and Environmental Attitudes,” with Alpaslan Akay. Under review, 2026.
- “The Price of Hope: Reference-Group Mobility and the Subjective Value of Income,” with Alpaslan Akay. Under review, 2026.
- “Non-Cognitive and Cognitive Skills on Labour Supply: Are They Complementary or Substitutes?” with Alpaslan Akay and Tolga Aksoy. Under review, 2026.
Ongoing
- “Cognitive Skills and Forecasting Errors.”
Presentations
Spring Meeting of the Turkish Economic Association; International Week Bielefeld; ZEW Internal Seminar; SOEP User Conference 2026
University of Hohenheim Brown Bag Seminar; Spring Meeting of the Turkish Economic Association; Turkish-German University Social Mobility PhD Workshop; International Week Bielefeld
TGU Brown Bag Seminar; TGU Economics Conference 2024
10th International Conference of Political Economy; 5th EJSER International Symposium on Social Sciences
Teaching experience
Instructor, Behavioural Economics, Turkish-German University (upcoming)
Teaching Assistant, Seminar, Turkish-German University
Teaching Assistant, Statistics I, Turkish-German University
Instructor, Introduction to Computer Programming; Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Economics, Turkish-German University
Teaching Assistant, Statistics I, Turkish-German University
Grants
DAAD Research Stay (3 months); DAAD Research Stay (4 months); Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Training (1 month); Erasmus+ Student Mobility (6 months)
Erasmus+ Student Mobility (11 months)
Erasmus+ Student Mobility (6 months)
Professional development / training
MPITurkey Workshop on Poverty and Inequality; Bielefeld International Conference on Applied Business; Inequality Conference 2026; 22nd HeiKaMaX Workshop; Remote Work in Europe: Evidence, Impacts, Policy; CIDER Spring Workshop 2026
Economics of Migration Workshop; Social Mobility PhD Workshop; Research Forum on Global Health and Worker Well-being; Workshop on Grant Writing and Research Funding in the Social Sciences; FReDA/GGS Autumn School; 10th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data Workshop; FReDA 2025 User Conference; Hohenheim PhD Workshop on Insurance Economics; RFBerlin Handbook Masterclass Series
Berlin Behavioral Economics Workshop; 3rd Berlin Workshop on Empirical Public Economics: Gender Economics
Simulation Training in Econometrics and Time Series with RStudio
Service, skills, and languages
Organisation
TGU Brown Bag Seminars; Economics of Immigration Workshop; Social Mobility PhD Workshop; TGU Economics Conferences
Academic service
Faculty Research Assistant Representative; Review Panel Member; Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Committee
Programming
Stata, R
Languages
Turkish (native); English (fluent); German and French (upper intermediate); Polish (beginner)
Academic references
Alpaslan Akay
University of Gothenburg
Tolga Aksoy
Yildiz Technical University
Last updated: May 1, 2026