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Professor Sule Alan is a Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science at Cornell University and Bilkent University. She is a board member and co-chair of the Education Sector and the Humanitarian Protection Initiative at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a research fellow at CEPR and CESifo, and affiliated with the Identity and Personality (IP) network.
- Education:
- B.Sc. in Economics from Middle East Technical University (1992)
- Ph.D. in Economics from McMaster University (2002)
Her research spans household finance, gender, education, and social policy, focusing on field experiments, behavioral interventions, and policy evaluations. Recent projects analyze inter-ethnic cohesion in schools, gender stereotypes, and the impact of school closures on children's cognitive development.
Her publications emphasize social exclusion, perspective-taking training, and prosocial behavior in educational settings, with keywords reflecting Education, Behavioral Economics, and Cognitive Development.
Research funding has been secured from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, ESRC, TUBITAK, British Academy, European Investment Bank Institute, and ING Bank.
She leads large-scale initiatives involving Turkish state elementary schools, the Turkish Ministry of Education, and the Turkish Capital Markets Board, with a focus on educational equity and behavioral interventions.
