Sule Alan

Biographic Data

ID5729942
NAMESule Alan
GIVEN NAMESSule
FAMILY NAMEAlan
SIGNATUREALAN S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Essex
ORCID0000-0002-3998-8998
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Social Exclusion and Ethnic Segregation in Schools

    Sule Alan, Enes Duysak et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2023

    Using data on primary school children and their teachers, we show that teachers who hold prejudicial attitudes towards an ethnic group create socially and spatially segregated classrooms. Leveraging a natural experiment where newly arrived refugee children are randomly assigned to teachers within schools, we find that teachers' ethnic prejudice, measured by an implicit association test, significantly lowers the prevalence of interethnic social li…

  • Impersonal trust in a Just and Unjust world

    Open AccessSule Alan, Elif KubilayARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2023References: 8

  • Understanding Gender Differences in Leadership

    Open AccessSule Alan, Seda Ertac et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2020Cited by: 5References: 39

    Using data from a large-scale field experiment, we show that while there is no gender difference in willingness to make risky decisions on behalf of a group in a sample of children, a large gap emerges in a sample of adolescents. The proportion of girls who exhibit leadership willingness drops by 39%, going from childhood to adolescence. We explore the possible factors behind this drop and find that it is largely associated with a dramatic declin…

  • Gender Stereotypes in the Classroom and Effects on Achievement

    Sule Alan, Seda Ertac et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2018

    We study the effect of elementary school teachers' beliefs about gender roles on student achievement. We exploit a natural experiment where teachers are prevented from self-selecting into schools, and, conditional on school, students are allocated to teachers randomly. We show that girls who are taught for longer than a year by teachers with traditional gender views have lower performance in objective math and verbal tests, and this effect is amp…

  • Fostering Patience in the Classroom

    Sule Alan, Seda ErtacARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2018Cited by: 20References: 1

    We evaluate the impact of a randomized educational intervention on children's intertemporal choices. The intervention aims to improve the ability to imagine future selves and encourages forward-looking behavior using a structured curriculum delivered by children's own trained teachers. We find that treated students make more patient intertemporal decisions in incentivized experimental tasks. The results persist almost 3 years after the interventi…

  • Income and Consumption

    Sule Alan, Martin Browning et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2018References: 1

    We develop a model of consumption and income that allows for pervasive heterogeneity in the parameters of both processes. Introducing codependence between household income parameters and preference parameters, we also allow for heterogeneity in the impact of income shocks on consumption. We estimate the parameters of the model using a sample from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, covering the period 1968–2009. We find considerable codependent h…

  • The Adequacy of Retirement Savings

    Sule Alan, Kadir Atalay et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy2008References: 5

    We examine retired Canadians’ subjective survey reports of satisfaction with finances, and with life, relative to the period before retirement. Many more retired Canadians report enjoying life more than before retirement than the converse, and in 2002 three-quarters of retired Canadians reported being either as satisfied or more satisfied with their finances than they were in the year prior to retirement. The most significant correlate of financi…