Work in Progress
“Sex ratios in the late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey”
“Gender inequality in Ottoman Crete”
“Intergenerational mobility in the Ottoman Empire”
“Land and livestock prices in Anatolia, 1500-1920”
“Inequality of wealth and income in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1800”
“House prices in Anatolia and Macedonia, 1460-1920″
Selected Papers
2022 “Reflections on the economics of gender inequality in the Ottoman Empire: the case of eighteenth-century Kandiye (Iraklion),” Institute for Mediterranean Studies Seminars, December 24.
2022 “Child Sex Ratios in the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1897-1965,” Conference on Sex Ratios and Missing Girls in History, University of Trondheim, May 5-6, with Alpay Filiztekin, Yavuz S. Kaçmaz, Meltem Özkan, Lara Yılmaz.
2022 “Intergenerational Mobility in the Ottoman Empire, 1460-1840,” XIX. World Economic History Congress, Paris, July 27, 2022, with A. Filiztekin.
2018 “Inequality of Income and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1800,” XVIII World Economic History Congress, with A. Filiztekin and Ş. Pamuk, Boston, July 29-August 3.
“Inequality and the Rich in Ottoman Anatolia and the Balkans, 1660-1840,” XVIII World Economic History Congress, with A. Filiztekin and I. Kokdas, Boston, July 29-August 3.
2018 “Slaveholding and its demise in Ottoman central lands: Bursa-Manisa-Trabzon, 1460-1880,” Fifth World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies,” with A. Filiztekin, Sevilla, 16-20 July.
2017 “Occupations and Investment in 19th-Century Bursa,” with M. Erdem Kabadayı and A. Filiztekin, Conference on Trade and Production in Ottoman Anatolia, VEKAM, Ankara, 28-29 September.
2016 “Very long-term trends in wealth inequality in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1920,” ESSHC, University of Valencia, 30 March – 2 April.
2015 “Long term trends in inequality in Ottoman central lands,” the XVIIth World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, 3-7 August 2015.
2013 “Looking at the 18th century from before and after,” Keynote speech, Ottoman Empire in the 18th century: Continuity and Change, Şehir University, June 11-13.
2013 “Wealth and Inequality in an Ottoman City,” EHS Annual Conference, University of York, April 5-7.
2012 “Labor relations in the Ottoman Empire,” with E. Kabadayı, 9th ESSHC, Glasgow University, April 11-14.
2011 “The Age of Revolutions in the Ottoman Empire: A Provincial Perspective,” Conference on Well-Connected Domains, Intersections of Asia and Europe in the Ottoman Empire, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University, 10-12 November.
2011 “Consumption in Ottoman Manastir (Bitola) and Manisa: a Long Term Perspective,” Workshop on Ottoman Consumption in a Comparative Perspective, AHRC International Network, Global Commodities, University of Warwick and Istanbul Bilgi University, 15-16 September.