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Ramazan Bora is an Economics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Queensland working in empirical economics and political economy. His research uses open data with high frequency in space, time, and behavior to study institutions, policy, and decision-making.
Research Interests
- Political economy
- Institutions and development
- Applied economics
- Computational social science
Latest Research
A High-Resolution View of the Hinterland: Local Government Centralization and Rural Development in Turkey
Studies the 2012 Turkish metropolitan municipality reform as a centralization shock for thousands of villages. Uses reconstructed administrative boundaries, VIIRS night lights, population outcomes, and distance-to-center measures in a contiguous-border DiD design.