Dr. Deniz Gevrek

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Texas at Austin
M.A. in Economics, University of Texas at Austin
B.A. in Economics, Bogazici University, Turkey


Joined the faculty in 2010

  • Research Interests:  Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Economic Demography, Economics of Education, with a focus on labor supply, human capital, education, migration, health outcomes, immigrant outcomes, and the impact of international treaties on women’s and girl’s wellbeing in developing countries.
  • Teaching Interests: Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Finance, Econometrics, and Managerial Economics in the MBA program.

Biography

      Dr. Gevrek is a Tenured Full Professor of Economics at the Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC). She also serves as an Economist at the TAMU-CC South Texas Economic Development Center (STEDC), which serves as an objective, data-driven, analytical, and technical economic consulting hub for leaders and other decision makers in the public and private sectors. She is also a Research Fellow at International Labor Institute IZA of Germany and the National Vice President of the Omicron Delta Epsilon, International Honor Society of Economics. She studied economics at the Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. She got in Bogazici University by ranking 121st out of over 1.5 million high school seniors. After receiving her B.A. degree, she attended and earned Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.
      Dr. Gevrek is a prolific academic whose research was published in prestigious journals and was featured at The Wall Street Journal and the Wired magazine. Her research interests include Applied Econometrics and Labor Economics with a focus on labor supply, human capital, education, migration, health outcomes, and the impact of international treaties on women’s and girl’s wellbeing in developing countries. She has published at prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as Labour Economics, Education Economics Review, Economics and Human Biology, Personnel Review, Applied Economics Letters, The Review of Black Political Economy, International Migration, International Journal of Social Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, Theoretical and Applied Economics, Global Economic Review. She takes pride on having worked over 15 co-authors from various disciplines and areas.
       Dr. Gevrek prioritizes student engagement and learning, and both graduate and undergraduate courses. She received numerous teaching awards from the TAMU-CC: including the College of Business New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award; Texas A&M System Chancellor’s Award for Teaching; and TAMUCC Honors Program Outstanding Faculty Award. She has received several awards related to her research activity: “College of Business Research Enhancement Award,” every year in 2016-2024 period, due to high quality and quantity of her peer-reviewed publications, and “The Researcher of the Year” award in 2017, from TAMU-CC. Most recently, in 2023, she received the College of Business Faculty Service Excellence Award. Dr. Gevrek is active in serving her department, college, TAMU-CC and local, global and professional community.  She continues represent TAMUCC nationally and internationally as she was also Visiting Research Scholar at the Economics departments of University of Texas at Austin and Deakin University (Australia) during her Faculty Developmental Leave.

      

Selected Publications

  • Lead Author “The Relationship between Early-Life Conditions in the Home Country and Adult Outcomes among Child Immigrants in the United States” Economics and Human Biology, 2022, 45(101069). (with Eylem Gevrek and Cahit Guven), (ABDC ranking: A)  IZA Discussion Paper DP13602.

  • “Social Norms and the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Turkey” Applied Economics Letters, July 11, 2022 (with Z. Eylem Gevrek). (ABDC ranking: B)

  • “Explaining the Gender Test Score Gap in Mathematics: The Role of Gender Inequality,” Economics of Education Review. 2020, 76(3), 1-31. (with Z. Eylem Gevrek and Christian Neumeier). (LEAD PAPER IN THE VOLUME/ISSUE) (ABDC ranking: A) IZA Discussion Paper DP11260.
     
  • Lead Author “Detecting a shade of Schadenfreude in employee satisfaction with salary raises,” Applied Economics Letters, January 8, 2020 DOI:  10.1080/13504851.2020.1711506 (with Marilyn Spencer and David Hudgins). (ABDC ranking: B)

  • Lead Author “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover,” Personnel Review, 2017, Volume 46, Issue 5, 1019-1043. (with Marilyn Spencer, David Hudgins and Valrie Chambers) (ABDC ranking: A)
     
  • Lead Author “Globalization and Women’s and Girls’ Health in 192 UN-Member Countries: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,” International Journal of Social Economics, 2016, 43(7), 692-721. Lead Author (with Karen Middleton). (ABDC ranking: B)

  • Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?” Personnel Review, 2016, 45(5), 1047-1068. (with Spencer, Marilyn, Valrie Chambers and Randall Bowden). (ABDC ranking: A)

  • “Dynamic Labor Scheduling in Japan: Underemployment Reduction and Karoshi Avoidance through Optimal Tracking Control,” at Global Economic Review: Perspectives on East Asian Economies and Industries, 2016, 45(2), 134-169. (with David Hudgins). (ABDC ranking: C)

  •  “A Labor Utility Index to Measure Worker Welfare and Labor Market Performance,” Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2015, Fall Issue, 22(3), 155 – 170. (with David Hudgins). (ABDC ranking: C)

  • Lead Author “Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants Eastern Economic Journal,” 2015, 41(3), 298 – 328. r (with Eylem Gevrek and Cahit Guven). (ABDC ranking: B)

  •  Sole Author “Interracial Marriage, Migration and Loving,” Review of Black Political Economy, 2014, 41(1), 25 – 60.  (ABDC ranking: C)

  •  “Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Immigrant Women’s Labor Supply,” International Migration, 2013, 51(6), 146 – 167. (with Z. Eylem Gevrek and Sonam Gupta). (ABDC ranking: A)

  • Lead Author “Nepotism, Incentives and the Academic Success of College Students,” Labour Economics, 2010, 17(3), 581 – 591. (with Eylem Gevrek). (ABDC ranking: A)

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