Fidan Ana Kurtulus

• Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008
• A.B., University of Chicago, 2000

• Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2018-present
• Faculty Director, Center for Employment Equity, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2017-present
• Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013-present
• Women and Public Policy Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 2015-2016
• Wertheim Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2013-2015
• Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2012 - present
• Research Coordinator, LERA Employment Policy Research Network, 2011 - present
• Beyster Fellow, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, 2009-2010
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007-2013
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Cornell University, 2005-2007
• Research Intern, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
• Research Assistant to Professor Francine D. Blau, Department of Economics and School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2002-2005
• Research Assistant to Professors Michael Waldman and Jed L. DeVaro, Department of Economics and School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2004
• Research Economist, U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2002
• Research Intern, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Research Division, 1999
• Research Assistant to Professor James J. Heckman, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1998-1999

Fidan Ana Kurtulus' research explores a number of topics in labor economics, including the organization of workers within firms, participatory workplace practices and employee ownership, the causes and consequences of workplace diversity, and the long-term effects of affirmative action legislation on the U.S. employment landscape since the Civil Rights Movement.

Labor Economics, Law and Economics, Public Policy, Economics of Organizations, Personnel Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

• Economics 781: Ph.D. Labor Economics
• Economics 341: Labor Economics
• Economics 397N: Compensation, Incentives, and Productivity
• Economics 397EC: Economics of Cooperative Enterprise

• Early Career Research Award, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2012 - 2013
• Chancellor's Junior Faculty Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010-2012
• J. Robert Beyster Fellow, Rutgers University, 2009-2010
• Cornell University Fellowship, 2002-2008
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Competition Honorable Mention
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago
• Student Marshal of the University of Chicago

• Kellogg Foundation Grant, 2017-2020
• National Science Foundation Grant, 2013-2016
• Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2012-2014
• Healey Endowment Grant, 2012-2013
• SADRI Social Science Research Scholar Grant, 2012-2013
• Michael W. Huber Fellowship Grant, 2011
• Proposal Preparation Grant, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011
• Sheridan-Barber Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009
• College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009
• Mellon Foundation Mutual Mentoring Individual Micro Grant, 2008 - 2009
• Mellon Foundation Mutual Mentoring Departmental Grant, 2008 - 2009
• University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Travel Grants, 2008, 2009, 2011

• American Economic Review
• Econometric Society
• Society of Labor Economists
• Labor and Employment Relations Association
• International Association for the Economics of Participation
• Eastern Economic Association
• Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
• Western Economic Association

Book

• How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions? Employee Ownership, Employment Stability, and Firm Survival: 1999-2011 (with Douglas Kruse), February 2017, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Articles

• "The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Employment of Women and Minorities Over Three Decades: 1973-2003", Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2016), pp. 34-66.
• "An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives and the Delegation of Worker Authority" (with Jed L. DeVaro), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 63, No. 4 (July 2010), pp. 641-661.
• "An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Employee Ownership and Employment Stability in the U.S." (with Doug Kruse), British Journal of Industrial Relations, forthcoming.
• "The Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action on Minority and Female Employment and Occupational Representation: A Natural Experiment Approach Using State-level Affirmative Action Laws", in progress.
• "Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records" (with Don Tomaskovic-Devey), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 639, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 173-179.
• "What Types of Diversity Benefit Workers? Empirical Evidence on the Effects of Co-Worker Dissimilarity on the Performance of Employees", Industrial Relations, Vol. 50, No. 4. (October 2011), pp. 678-712.
• "Worker Attitudes Towards Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing and Variable Pay", (with Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi), Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, Vol. 12, 2011, pp. 143-168.
• "Affirmative Action and the Occupational Advancement of Minorities and Women During 1973-2003", Industrial Relations, Vol. 51, No. 2, (April 2012), pp. 213-246.
• "Risk Preferences, Compensation Risk, and Worker Outcomes" (with Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi), 2011 Annual LERA Research Volume: Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism: New Directions and Debates for the 21st Century, Cornell University ILR Press, 2011, pp. 147-176.
• "What Types of Organizations Benefit from Team Production, and How Do They Benefit?" (with Jed L. DeVaro), Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, Vol. 9, 2006, pp. 3-56 (lead article).

• Beyster Fellows Winter Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, January 2017
• NSF Third Annual EEODataNet Conference, Washington, DC, June 2016
• Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Seminar, Cambridge, MA, October 2015
• University of Connecticut Seminar, West Hartford, CT, October 2015
• University of California San Diego Rady School of Management Employee Ownership Symposium, LaJolla, CA, June 2015
• NSF Second Annual EEODataNet Conference, Washington, DC, May 2015
• University of Massachusetts, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Celebration, Amherst, MA, November 2015
• Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists, Washington, DC, May 2014
• NSF First Annual EEODataNet Conference, Washington, DC, May 2014
• Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2014
• University of Connecticut Applied Microeconomics Seminar, Storrs, CT, December 2013
• Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Orlando, FL, August 2013
• University of Massachusetts Center for Public Policy Administration Faculty Colloquium, Amherst, Ma, May 2013
• Beyster Fellows Winter Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, January 2013
• Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, San Diego, CA, January 2013
• Lafayette College Economics Seminar, Easton, PA, November 2012
• Biennial Research Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, July 2012
• Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Sciences Associations, Chicago, IL, January 2012
• Beyster Fellows Winter Conference, LaJolla, CA, December 2011
• Triennial Research Conference of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics, Amherst, MA, November 2011
• Tulane University Economics Seminar, New Orleans, LA, September 2011
• London School of Economics, CEP/NIESR Seminar, London, England, May 2011
• Annual Meetings of the Midwest Economics Association, St. Louis, MO, March 2011
• Beyster Fellows Winter Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, February 2011
• Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Sciences Associations, Denver, CO, January 2011
• University of Massachusetts CPPA Discrimination Lunch, Amherst, MA, October 2010
• World Congress of the International Association for the Economics of Participation, University of Paris II, Paris, France, July 2010
• Symposium on “Re-Capitalizing the Economy: Envisioning the Role of Broad Employee Ownership”, LaJolla, CA, June 2010
• Rutgers University Microeconomics Seminar, New Brunswick, NJ, March 2010
• Beyster Fellows Winter Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, February 2010
• Colgate University Economics Seminar, Hamilton, NY, February 2010
• Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, Atlanta, GA, January 2010
• American Time Use Survey Conference, College Park, MD, June 2009 (participant)
• Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists, Cambridge, MA, May 2009
• Rutgers University SMLR Seminar, New Brunswick, NJ, February 2009
• Annual Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, NY, February 2009
• University of Massachusetts Economic Theory Seminar, Amherst, MA, September 2008
• NBER Summer Institute, Labor Studies and Personnel Economics Meetings, Cambridge, MA, July 2008 (participant)
• Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association, Honolulu, HI, July 2008
• Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists, New York, NY, May 2008
• Nanobank Research Conference, Cambridge, MA, May 2008
• NBER Emerging Industries, Nanotechnology and NanoIndicators Conference, Cambridge, MA, May 2008 (participant)
• Annual Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA, March 2008
• Cornell University Labor Economics Seminar, Ithaca, NY, October 2006
• Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists, Cambridge, MA, May 2006
• International Food Policy Research Institute / Cornell Conference on Threshold Effects and NonLinearities in Growth and Development, Washington, DC, May 2005 (participant)

• Bloomberg
• The New York Times
• The Republican (Springfield, MA)
• VoxEU - Research-Based Policy Analysis and Commentary (Europe)

• Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Economics Program
• Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Science of Science and Innovation Program
• Research Coordinator, LERA Employment Policy Research Network, Equal Employment Opportunity Topical Area
• Conference Organizer, NSF Equal Employment Opportunity Data and Research Conference, EEOC Headquarters, Washington DC, May 2015
• Panel Member, Report for the Computershare/NIESR/London School of Economics Research Project on Employee Ownership, July 2014
• Session Chair and Discussant, Employee Ownership Symposium, LaJolla, CA, June 2015
• Session Organizer for LERA Labor Markets Interest Section, Sessions on "Democratic Workplace Practices and Employee Ownership" and "Gender, Race, and the Labor Market", Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Sciences Associations, Philadelphia, PA, January 2014
• Session Chair and Discussant, Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Sciences Associations, Philadelphia, PA, January 2014
• Program Committee, Biennial Research Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, July 2012
• Session Discussant, Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Sciences Associations, Chicago, IL, January 2012
• Session Discussant, Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Sciences Associations, Denver, CO, January 2011
• Session Chair and Discussant, Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association, Honolulu, HI, July 2008
• Session Chair and Discussant, Annual Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA, March 2008
• Referee,
  • Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • European Economic Review
  • Journal of Labor Economics (2)
  • Industrial Relations (2)
  • British Journal of Industrial Relations
  • Journal of Population Economics
  • Labour Economics (2)
  • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  • Journal of Human Resources
  • Journal of Labor Research
  • Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (2)
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
  • LABOUR
  • Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (2)
  • Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
  • IZA Journal of Labor Economics
  • IZA World of Labor
  • Empirical Economics
  • Management Research Review
  • Applied Economics
  • Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms (2)
  • International Journal of Manpower (2)
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Research in Labor Economics
    Oxford University Press

UMass College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Council, 2016-2017

Economics Executive Committee, 2016-2017

Economics Merit and Awards Committee, 2015

Economics Department Hiring Committee, 2013-2014

Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series Organizer, 2011-2013

Economics and Afro-American Studies Departments Joint Hiring Committee, 2012-2013

Economics Department Working Paper Series Coordinator, 2012-2013

Economics Department Executive Committee, Spring 2011, 2011-2012

Sheridan-Barber Committee, Spring 2012

Economics Department Coordinator for the UMass Amherst Community Campaign, 2010-2012

Economics Department Undergraduate Committee, 2008-2009

Economics Department Computing Committee, 2008-2009

Native speaker of English and Turkish, speaking ability of Azeri, rudimentary knowledge of Russian and German

CeMent Mentoring Workshop participant (organized by the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession), January 2012

Traveled to 33 countries: Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, Turkey, Barbados, US, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, England, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Holland, France, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Italy, Maldives, Spain, Bermuda

Piano, zither, saxophone, tennis, backgammon, skiing, certified open water scuba diver, rock climbing, and viniculture

August 1st, 2017