Murat Iyigun

About

Murat Iyigun is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado. His work includes research on topics such as war, peace, and prosperity, with a focus on the role of religion and demographic factors in economic development. He has contributed to the understanding of how religious conflicts and demographic changes influence economic outcomes and stability. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Demographic Economics, and he is affiliated with the Regents of the University of Colorado.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Social Science
• Political Science
• Epistemology
• Art
• Law
• Philosophy
• Literature
• Aesthetics

Selected publications

• Changing the Rules Midway: The Impact of Granting Alimony Rights on Existing and Newly Formed Partnerships

  The Economic Journal · 2016-04-26 · 56 citations

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  This article analyses the effect of a reform granting alimony rights to cohabiting couples in Canada. A collective household model with a matching framework predicts that changes in alimony laws would affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing couples, it benefits the intended beneficiary but, for couples not yet formed, it generates offsetting intra-household transfers and lower intra-marital allocations for the beneficiary. Our empirical analyses confirm these predicti…

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• Winter is Coming: The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2017-01-01 · 38 citations

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  We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We show that cooling is associated with increased conflict. When we allow the effects of cooling over a fifty-year period to depend on the extent of cooling during the preceding period, the effect of cooling on conflict is larger in locations that experienced earlie…

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• The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2017-11-01 · 25 citations

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  This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permanent improvements in agricultural productivity, we exploit the introduction of potatoes from the Americas to the Old World after the Columbian Exchange. We find that the introduction of potatoes permane…

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• Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2016-01-01 · 17 citations

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• The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017-01-01 · 7 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Ann L. Owen

  Hamilton College

  64 shared

• Nancy Qian

  Bread for the World Institute

  62 shared

• Nathan Nunn

  60 shared

• Yoram Weiss

  45 shared

• Avner Greif

  33 shared

• Pierre‐André Chiappori

  25 shared

• Jared Rubin

  Chapman University

  16 shared

• Andrew T. Levin

  Dartmouth College

  13 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Brown University

  1995

• M.A., Economics

  Brown University

• Other, Finance and Economics

  Boston University

• B.S., Business Administration

  Hacettepe University

Awards & honors

• Founding Fellow of the Association for Analytical Learning o…

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