Ali Furkan Kalay

All my work revolves around computers. Many hours in front of the screen, reading and typing. Well, most of us nowadays work like that. However, in the last couple of months, I’ve been typing even more because I’m in the middle of completing my thesis. This isn’t just writing; it’s coding too. By May, I started feeling pain in my fingertips. I’ve felt this before, but it used to be after short intense typing periods. This time, it’s been consistent. [Read More]

I presented the Peer Effects in Private Health Insurance Deamand (joint work with Alicia N. Rambaldi and Christiern Rose) at Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, University of New South Wales.

In a post last year, I unveiled synloc, my Python package designed for sequential and local estimation of distributions to generate synthetic data from a sample. The algorithm that powers synloc is flexible enough to integrate with both parametric and nonparametric distributions, and can be easily installed via PyPI with the command pip install synloc. [Read More]

I have presented the Peer Effects in Private Health Insurance Deamand (joint work with Alicia N. Rambaldi and Christiern Rose) at the Australian Conference of Economists 2023 (Brisbane). This is one of my thesis chapters, exploiting the unique research opportunities enabled by the linked administrative data.

I shared an example way of using ChatGPT earlier this week. Here is another one to increase the efficiency of a simple R code. In terms of speed gains, R often exhibits significant variation compared to Python. Sometimes it is extremely slow… I often try to find the most efficient way. So, [Read More]