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Home | People | Aysu Okbay
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Aysu Okbay

Research Fellow
University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
E-mail
a.okbay@vu.nl
Research field
Empirical Microeconomics
Interests
Ageing, Behavioral Economics, Education, Health, Inequality
Website
Link to personal website

Biography

Aysu Okbay is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the VU. She got her PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2017. Her research interests lie at the intersection of biology and social sciences, with a focus on unravelling the genetic basis of behaviors that are relevant for the social sciences, such as educational attainment.

List of publications

Fairley, K., Fornwagner, H. and Okbay, A. (2024). Brains, hormones, and genes: Introduction to the special issue on the biological foundations of economic decision-making Journal of Economic Psychology, 100:1--11.