2026 Aysit Tansel: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	35	2911	2637	10	10	163	7250

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Economics and Finance

2911

2637

163

7250

Overview

Aysit Tansel is a researcher affiliated with Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Their work primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Social Sciences. The research corpus includes significant contributions to subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their scholarly focus encompasses several core topics, including:

Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality
Migration and Labor Dynamics
Unemployment and Economic Growth
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Among their recent publications are:

"Public-private sector wage gap by gender in Egypt: Evidence from quantile regression on panel data, 1998-2018," 2020, published in World Development
"Job Satisfaction, Structure of Working Environment and Firm Size," 2022, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age-period-cohort analysis*," 2022, published in Review of Development Economics (co-authored by Moundir Lassassi)
"Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected Mena Countries: An Age- Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)," 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal (co-authored by Moundir Lassassi)
"Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: the Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods," 2020, published in Applied Economics (authored by Harry Anthony Patrinos)

Their frequent co-authors include:

Moundir Lassassi
Ceyhan Öztürk
Erkan Erdil
Harry Anthony Patrinos
George Psacharopoulos

The venues where their work is most frequently published comprise:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Applied Economics
World Development
Review of Development Economics
International Journal of Manpower

Best Publications

Job satisfaction in Britain: individual and job related factors

Saziye Gazioglu;Aysit Tansel

910
Citations
Determinants of school attainment of boys and girls in Turkey: individual, household and community factors

Aysit Tansel

515
Citations
Demand for education in Turkey: A tobit analysis of private tutoring expenditures

Aysıt Tansel;Fatma Bircan

490
Citations
Wage employment, earnings and returns to schooling for men and women in Turkey

Aysit Tansel

474
Citations
Wage and labor supply effects of illness in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana: instrumental variable estimates for days disabled

T.Paul Schultz;Aysit Tansel

431
Citations
Public‐Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials, and Gender in Turkey

Aysit Tansel

358
Citations
Economic Development and Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: Time-Series Evidence and Cross-Province Estimates

Aysıt Tansel

274
Citations
Schooling Attainment, Parental Education, and Gender in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Aysit Tansel

247
Citations
“Brain drain” from Turkey: survey evidence of student non‐return

Aysit Tansel;Nil Demet Güngör

179
Citations
Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Aysit Tansel;Saziye Gazioglu

178
Citations
Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Aysit Tansel;Fatma Bircan Bodur

155
Citations
Economic Performance and Political Outcomes: An Analysis of the Turkish Parliamentary and Local Election Results Between 1950 and 2004

Ali T. Akarca;Aysit Tansel

139
Citations
Brain drain from Turkey: an investigation of students’ return intentions

Nil Demet Güngör;Aysıt Tansel

123
Citations
Brain Drain from Turkey: Return Intentions of Skilled Migrants

Nil Demet Güngör;Aysit Tansel

110
Citations
Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel;H. Mehmet Tasci

110
Citations
Impact of Sibship Size, Birth Order and Sex Composition on School Enrolment in Urban Turkey

Meltem Dayioğlu;Murat G. Kirdar;Aysit Tansel

109
Citations
Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Aysit Tansel;H. Mehmet Taşçı

102
Citations
Cigarette demand, health scares and education in Turkey

Aysit Tansel

102
Citations
Women and development

Elizabeth M. King;Stephan Klasen;Maria Porter;Lawrence Haddad

102
Citations
Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo;Aysit Tansel

102
Citations
Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey

Ali T Akarca;Aysit Tansel

96
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mehmet Balcilar University of New Haven

Harry Anthony Patrinos World Bank

George Psacharopoulos Georgetown University

Frédéric Docquier Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Luis A. Gil-Alana University of Navarra

T. Paul Schultz Yale University

External Links

Personal website of Aysit Tansel Google Scholar page

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