Ali Furkan Kalay

I presented The Impact of Antidepressant Uptake on Labor Productivity: Evidence from Australian Linked Administrative Data at the 15th Australasian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics on 15 April 2026. This is joint work with Jonas Fooken and Henry Cutler, and the workshop was a great opportunity to receive feedback from researchers working at the intersection of econometrics and health economics. [Read More]

I recently started a YouTube channel, and my main goal with it is research translation. It’s one thing to publish a paper in a journal, but it’s another entirely to get those methods out of the academic bubble and into the hands of data scientists and researchers who can actually use them. [Read More]

I presented The Impact of Antidepressant Uptake on Labor Productivity: Evidence from Australian Linked Administrative Data at the MUCHE internal seminars on 11 March 2026. This is joint work with Jonas Fooken and Henry Cutler, and it was a helpful opportunity to share updated results and receive detailed feedback before the next conference presentation. [Read More]

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]