Aysit Tansel

Emeritus Professor, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Aysit Tansel is an emeritus professor of Economics and currently teaches part-time at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara. She graduated from the Adana Girls High School as the top student of her class. She received her BS from METU with high honors, her MA from University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. from the State University of New York. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Yale University and a Fulbright fellow at the Cornell University. She is a research fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn and the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. She is a member of the Turkish Economic Association. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) (2011-2022). Her publications have appeared in journals such as World Development, Economics of Education Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Economics, Public Choice, International Migration, Applied Economics and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv. She served in the editorial board of Economics of Education Review (2008-present) and of the several other journals such as Economy-TEK (present) Equality Diversity and Inclusion (2004-2020) International Journal of Education Economics and Developmet (2005-2012), Turnalar Uluslarası Türk Dili Edebiyat ve Çeviri Dergisi. 1998-present).