H. Naci Mocan is a Turkish-American economist and scholar. He currently is the Ourso Distinguished Chair of Economics at Louisiana State University. He is an expert on labor economics, health economics, and the economics of crime.

Education and early life

Mocan was born in Istanbul, Turkey, where he attended

Istanbul Erkek Lisesi Istanbul High School ( tr, İstanbul Lisesi, german: Istanbuler Gymnasium), also commonly known as Istanbul Boys' High School ( tr, İstanbul Erkek Lisesi, abbreviated İEL), is one of the oldest and internationally renowned high schools of Turkey ...

. He studied economics at Bogazici University and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

Research

Mocan is an expert in the areas of labor economics, health economics, and the economics of crime. In the early 2000s he became part of the debate on the effectiveness of the

death penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

when his research found that the death penalty is a deterrent of crime. He also found that people who are considered to be ugly are more likely to be criminals. Recent work has examined the effects of education in developing countries, including the impact that education has on female empowerment and religiosity and superstition. He also was the first economist to use econometric tools to measure vengeance.

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