Ali Unur
Lecturer
2007
PAMWeb Bio Page
Current Activities
Current Professional Activities
Current Research Activities
Altruism and resource allocation in the family: Investigate experimentally the effects of genetic relatedness on resource allocation, examine consistency of parents' and children's preferences for giving with economic theory of altruism.
Web based economics experiments utilized in research projects and teaching.
Biography
Biographical Statement
My research focuses on analysis of individual and group behavior using economics experiments. I am mainly interested in positively interdependent preferences, mostly in the context of families, or groups
of genetically related individuals.
I also enjoy constructing and deploying economic experiments online
using Perl, Apache, and PostgreSQL, and I can tolerate analyzing data
using standard tools such as Stata, SAS, MatLab and custom written
programs.
Education
Ph.D. in Consumer Economics, Cornell University, 1999
M.A. in Economics, Cornell University, 1995
M.Sc. in Economics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 1994
B.Sc. in Economics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 1992
Courses, Websites, Pubs
Courses Taught
PAM 200 - Intermediate Microeconomics
PAM 210 - Introduction to Statistics for Policy Analysis
PAM 340 - Economics of Consumer Policy
Related Websites
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/
Publications
Peters, H.E., A.S. Unur, J. Clark and W.D. Schulze, Free-Riding and the Provision of Public Goods in the Family: A Laboratory Experiment, International Economic Review, January 2004.
Economic Perspectives on Altruism and the Family,(2001),with H. Elizabeth Peters. In Arland Thornton, (Ed.), The Well-Being of Children and Families: Research and Data Needs. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press.