Atalay, Kadir

Professor Kadir Atalay serves as Professor of Economics in the School of Economics within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. He holds a PhD from McMaster University. His research interests encompass applied econometrics, public economics, labour economics, and health economics, with a particular emphasis on intertemporal decision-making. Atalay's work examines critical areas such as retirement decisions, pension incentives, household finances, energy consumption in retirement, mortality inequalities, spatial health disparities, economic downturns, lockdowns, self-employment trends, housing wealth effects, and political violence linked to commodity prices.

Key publications include 'Dimming down in retirement: the impact of retirement on energy expenditure' (Applied Economics, 2024), 'Lost in Transition: A Cohort Analysis of Catch-Up in Homeownership in Australia' (2024), 'Mortality inequality, spatial differences and health care access' (Health Economics, 2023), 'Retirement routes and the well-being of retirees' (Empirical Economics, 2022), 'Lives saved during economic downturns: Evidence from Australia' (Health Economics, 2021), 'Pension incentives and the joint retirement of couples' (Journal of Population Economics, 2019), 'House Prices, Wealth and Consumption: New Evidence from Australia and Canada' (Review of Income and Wealth, 2016), 'The Decline of the Self-Employment Rate in Australia' (2014), and 'Agricultural windfalls and the seasonality of political violence in Africa' (2024). He has produced 57 research works, garnering over 1,019 citations. Atalay received the University of Sydney 2016 Teaching Excellence Award, the 2024 Quality of Research Discovery Award from the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, and a 2020 SOAR fellowship from the University of Sydney. He is associated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Life Course Centre.

Professional Email: kadir.atalay@sydney.edu.au