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What are the contentious political dynamics of the largest workfare program in the world, the Mah... more What are the contentious political dynamics of the largest workfare program in the world, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of India? Combining quantitative analysis with a close reading of government documents and a survey of the existing literature, we suggest that the Indian government's counter-insurgency strategy against the Maoist unrest is a significant dynamic shaping the distribution of MGNREGA benefits. In our empirical analysis, we examine the effect of Maoist incidents on household income due to MGNREGA by merging a nationally representative household survey (Indian Human Development Survey-II) and a Maoist incidents dataset. Controlling for relevant household and district characteristics, we show that higher intensity of violent conflicts is associated with higher MGNREGA benefits. This result is robust to using a variety of alternative specifications and estimation methodologies.

Global Welfare Dataset (GLOW) - glow.ku.edu.tr, 2019

The Global Welfare Dataset (GLOW) (glow.ku.edu.tr) is a cross-national panel dataset that aims at... more The Global Welfare Dataset (GLOW) (glow.ku.edu.tr) is a cross-national panel dataset that aims at facilitating comparative social policy research on the Global North and Global South. GLOW is an outcome of a comparative welfare politics research project, "Emerging Welfare," funded by the European Research Council (emw.ku.edu.tr) and based in Koç University in Istanbul.

You can find more information on GLOW and the EMW Project in the following Youtube videos:

GLOW: https://youtu.be/SjAhuzZCR08

EMW: https://youtu.be/Xlbqpcs3mn0

The GLOW dataset includes 381 variables on 61 countries from the years between 1989 and 2015. It covers comparable panel data on both Global North and South as we have compiled data from a large number of international and domestic sources, conducted compatibility checks, and standardized the data. GLOW provides comparable cross-national data on social assistance, as we applied the same methodology of the World Bank's ASPIRE dataset in order to build comparable indicators across developed and developing countries. We have also extracted employee and employer contributions from SSA reports for all case countries.

In addition to welfare policy indicators, GLOW covers three other main categories of data, namely development, economy, and politics. As such, it provides panel data not only for social policy scholars but for sociologists, economists, and political scientists, and other social scientists. Researchers will find a wide range of standardized panel data that can serve as independent, dependent, or control variables in their quantitative analyses. GLOW also provides visualizations of welfare policy indicators across time and geography, and scholars can use it for descriptive purposes, as well.

We very much hope that GLOW will contribute to the scholarly efforts to reach a global theory of welfare states and welfare regimes. It is an outcome of a collective three-year-long effort of the large team of international researchers of the Emerging Welfare project. I want to thank my colleagues for their effort in the creation of this dataset, and I hope that GLOW will be a useful source of comparative welfare policy research. I will appreciate it if you can spread the word in your circles and if you can send us any feedback on GLOW, as well.

Papers by Murat Koyuncu

Social Policy & Administration

Economics Letters, Jun 1, 2017

h i g h l i g h t s • This paper aims to assess how changes in ethnic/racial tension (over time) ... more h i g h l i g h t s • This paper aims to assess how changes in ethnic/racial tension (over time) affect economic growth in the short-run. • Time-varying index of ethnic/racial tension. • Results show that racial tension has detrimental effects on growth, and those effects are more pronounced during low growth periods.

Economics Letters, 2017

METU Studies in Development, 2016

ODTU Gelisme Dergisi’nin bu ozel sayisi Mayis 2014’te ODTU Iktisat Bolumu’nden emekli olan Prof. ... more ODTU Gelisme Dergisi’nin bu ozel sayisi Mayis 2014’te ODTU Iktisat Bolumu’nden emekli olan Prof. Dr. Fikret Şenses’e armagan olarak hazirlandi.

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2011

The difference between average hours worked in the US and average hours worked in Continental Eur... more The difference between average hours worked in the US and average hours worked in Continental European countries has been increasing since the early 1970s. To explain this phenomenon, this paper develops an endogenous growth model with two key properties: ...

Erc Working Papers, 2004

• Gelir Da ılımı ve Yoksulluk Kriz sonrasında yoksulluk oranı % 19'dan % 37'ye yükselerek, nerede... more • Gelir Da ılımı ve Yoksulluk Kriz sonrasında yoksulluk oranı % 19'dan % 37'ye yükselerek, neredeyse iki katına çıkarken, gelir e itsizli inin azaldı ı gözlenmi tir (Tablo 2). Tjiptoherijanto ve Remi (2001: 11-12) gelir da ılımdaki bu düzelmeyi iki nedene ba lamaktadır. Birinci neden, krizin daha yüksek

Contemporary Economic Policy, 2015

Bu çalismanin amaci kisa dönem ekonomik krizlerin sosyoekonomik etkilerini bunlardan son dönemde ... more Bu çalismanin amaci kisa dönem ekonomik krizlerin sosyoekonomik etkilerini bunlardan son dönemde önemli ölçüde etkilenmis üç ülke olan Endonezya, Arjantin ve Türkiye baglaminda, bu krizlerin yayginlasmaya basladigi 1990’li yillarin baslarindan bu yana geçen süredeki gelismeler çerçevesinde incelemektir. Ayni dönemde krizle karsilasan diger ülkeleri degerlendirme disinda birakmis olsa da bu çalisma, üç ülkeyi temel alan kiyaslamali bakis açisiyla krizlerle karsilasan ülkelerin deneyimlerindeki çesitliligi ana hatlariyla ortaya koymayi amaçlamaktadir. Krizlerin nihaî etkisi, krizlerden kaynaklanan “dogrudan” etkilerin ötesinde, kriz sirasinda uygulamaya konan istikrar ve yapisal uyum programlari, krizden etkilenen kesimlerin tepkileri, uluslararasi kuruluslarin ve ülke hükümetlerinin tutumlari ve diger birçok unsurun karmasik bir bileseni olarak ortaya çikmakta ve krizlerin etkileriyle kriz sonrasi uygulanan programlarin etkilerini birbirinden ayristirabilmek güçlesmektedir. Üstelik s...

Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010

Australian Economic Papers, 2012

This paper investigates the international transmission of fiscal shocks between two closely-linke... more This paper investigates the international transmission of fiscal shocks between two closely-linked, open economies. We estimate impulse response functions using a semi-structural vector auto regressive (VAR) model and quarterly data from Australia and New Zealand for the period 1973:3-2008:4. We compare our empirical results with impulse response functions from a calibrated two-country international real business cycle model with habit formation and adjustment costs to investment. We show that a positive shock to Australian government consumption leads to an increase in Australian output initially and then to a decline in the medium term, while the New Zealand output is negatively affected both in the short and medium term. This result is in line with the recent literature that reports beggar-thy-neighbour effect of positive government spending shocks. I. I n t r o d u c t i o n The global recession of 2008-09 and the subsequent policy responses have rekindled the interest on the international transmission of policy shocks. As a response to the dwindling global and domestic demand, many governments adopted fiscal stimulus packages over the past two years. Since the recent literature suggests that expansionary fiscal policy might hurt the foreign country through real exchange rate depreciation, the cross-border effects of these policies require deeper analysis. However, the transmission of monetary policy shocks have been investigated more thoroughly than the transmission of fiscal policy shocks in the literature. More specifically, the international transmission of monetary shocks has been examined both theoretically (

Ekonomik Araştırmalar Merkezi Araştırma …, 2004