CV

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Contact

• Ali Demir
• PhD Candidate in Economics, Ruhr University Bochum
• Expected completion: September 2026
• Email: ali.demir-l1f@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
• Phone: +49 160 349 26 73

Research Fields

• Applied Microeconomics
• Migration Economics
• Family Economics
• Labor Economics

Research

• Job Market Paper
  • German Internal Migration: A Marriage Market Perspective
• Working Papers
  • Housing Security and Family Expansion: Evidence from German Homeownership
  • Transition to Adulthood: Local Rents and Leaving the Parental Home

Education

• 2023–Present: PhD in Economics
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • Regional Disparities and Economic Policy Research Training Group
  • Expected completion: September 2026
• 2021–2023: M.Sc. in Behavioral and Applied Economics
  • University of Trento
  • Exchange Year: M.Sc. in Public Economics, Free University of Berlin, 2022–2023
  • Research Stay: Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2022
• 2016–2021: B.Sc. in Mathematics
  • Middle East Technical University

Teaching

• Wintersemester 2025/26: Instructor, Introductory Migration Economics
  • Chair of Empirical Economics, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Bachelor-level course taught in English

Research Experience

• July 2022–October 2022: Research Intern
  • Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
  • Project: Overconfidence and Prosociality within Motivated Beliefs
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Susann Fiedler
• January 2022–August 2022: Student Research Assistant
  • University of Trento, Trento, Italy
  • Project: Foreign Language Effect on Planning Fallacy
  • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Matteo Ploner

Honors and Awards

• UniTrento Merit Scholarship, 2021–2023
• METU Alumni Association Merit Scholarship, 2016–2019
• Honour Roll, Middle East Technical University, 2016–2017
• Turkish Educational Foundation Merit Scholarship, 2013–2014

Skills

• Languages
  • Turkish (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • German (B1)
• Software
  • Stata
  • R
  • Python
  • LaTeX
  • oTree

Professional Service and Other Experience

• January 2022–October 2023: Assistant Editor
  • behavioraleconomics.com
  • United Kingdom, remote

References

• Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Bauer
  • Chair of Empirical Economics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • Email: Thomas.Bauer@rub.de
• Prof. Dr. Arnaud Chevalier
  • Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London, London, UK
  • Email: arnaud.chevalier@rhul.ac.uk
• Prof. Dr. Tobias Seidel
  • Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
  • Email: tobias.seidel@uni-due.de