I grew up in Turkey in the 90s. As a child I was absorbing doubling ice cream prices

every summer and I was saving my little pocket money by converting it into dollars and Deutsche

Mark at the time. I became interested in these economic issues when I was a child and then

afterwards I decided to study economics. After I had my own family I became particularly

more interested in family economics. In my research I analyzed labor markets with the

perspective of gender and family. The questions such as how many kids to have, when to have

and how much to spend for them for toys and books and educational activities are part

of my research. I particularly analyzed whether people have kids in good or bad economic times

and whether these decisions depend on their job types or gender inequalities in childbearing.

I believe these questions are important as fertility rate is very low in many developed

economies and we need to develop effective policies and for that we need to understand

how people are deciding. In a world where gender inequality is still a concern I would

like to contribute to our understanding of gender and family by providing different perspectives.

And FAU is a good place to work with good resources and established system and friendly

working environment which are important pillars for a researcher to keep going.