Ali Furkan Kalay

I presented The Impact of Antidepressant Initiation on Labour Market Productivity at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH), The University of Queensland. I’m grateful to Elçin Tüzel for the invitation and to the CBEH-UQ team for their detailed and constructive feedback. This seminar was a great opportunity because Jonas Fooken, Henry Cutler, and I were updating the results as we prepare the work for submission.

A few weeks ago, a friend texted me with unexpected news: we had both received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding HDR Thesis from the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, back in 2024! [Read More]

I am very happy to announce that my paper “Generating Synthetic Data with Locally Estimated Distributions for Disclosure Control” has been officially published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics! [Read More]

I had the pleasure of presenting our paper “Bridging Language Barriers: The Impact of Large Language Models on Academic Writing” (co-authored with Burak Dalaman and Nathan Kettlewell) at the Inaugural AE2 Conference — the Australasian Econometric Conference of the Association of Econometricians (ANZAE). [Read More]

I’m excited to share a new working paper co-authored with Burak Dalaman and Nathan Kettlewell. We study how large language models (LLMs) changes academic writing, with a simple idea that unlocks a clean comparison between native and non-native English speaking authors. While studying the impact of LLMs, we also happen to use LLMs to infer authors’ likely English language background from names. This lets us split abstracts into native-authored and non-native-authored groups and track differences over time. [Read More]