An economist by training, Dr Cansın Arslan is a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter. Prior to visiting LSE, she was a research fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Cansın’s current research focuses on the economics of gender and diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Making use of behavioural interventions and thorough evaluation methods, her research aims at reducing bias against disadvantaged groups and improving diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The organisations she collaborates with include Ageas Insurance, Bristol City Council, Ericsson, Nationwide, Phoenix Group, Ringier, UKRI, and Zurich Insurance.
Cansın’s doctoral research falls under the broad banner of development microeconomics motivated by examining the effects of information asymmetries in agricultural value chains and within the household in developing countries.
Prior to her doctoral work, she was a field research associate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She has also served as an external consultant for several organisations including the OECD, International Coffee Organization (ICO), Center for Economic Development (C4ED), and MoreThanNow.
Having conducted various field experiments both within multinational firms and in developing countries, Cansın has extensive experience in managing field research projects and leading teams, and collaborations from researchers and practitioners at a wide range of institutions around the world.
Selected Publications
Hidden income and its impact on expenditure patterns in Uganda (with Daniel Gregg and Randy Stringer) World Development (2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X24002067
Incorporating DEI into Decision-Making (with Edward Chang, Siri Chilazi, James Elfer, Erika Kirgios, and Oliver Hauser) Harvard Business Review (2023)
https://hbr.org/2023/09/incorporating-dei-into-decision-making
Paying more to make less: value degrading in the coffee value chain (with Daniel Gregg and Meike Wollni) American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2023)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajae.12389
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption (with Meike Wollni, Judith Oduol, and Karl Hughes) World Development (2022)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X22002054?via%3Dihub
Supply Chain Relationships: Experiments with Coffee Growers and Traders in Uganda (with Alexandra Peralta and Robert Shupp) Oxford Development Studies (2022)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600818.2021.2007232
The Value of Coffee: Sustainability, Inclusiveness, and Resilience of the Coffee Global Value Chain (with Christoph Saenger). Coffee Development Report. International Coffee Organization (2021) https://www.icocoffee.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CDR2020.pdf
A new profile of migrants in the aftermath of the recent economic crisis (with Dumont, Kone, Ozden, Parsons, and Xenogiani). OECD Publishing (2015) https://www.oecd.org/els/mig/WP160.pdf
Selected Work in Progress
Just-in-time diversity training leads to more diverse hiring in a global engineering firm (with Iris Bohnet, Edward Chang, Siri Chilazi, and Oliver Hauser)
The mixed effects of framings on performance evaluations and aspirations (with Oliver Hauser)
Hiding money in the old boys’ club: employee and manager relationships contribute to the gender pay gap (with Oliver Hauser)
The effects of diversity salience and accountability on ethnicity gaps in performance reviews (with Iris Bohnet, Edward Chang, Siri Chilazi, Oliver Hauser, and Erika Kirgios)
Hidden consumption and household norm disagreements (with Daniel Hill, Daniel Gregg, and Randy Stringer)
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Economics (Dr.Rer.Pol) (University of Goettingen, Germany)
- MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MITx, USA)
- Master’s in Quantitative Economics (Paris School of Economics, France)
- Bachelor’s in Economics (Yeditepe University, Turkey)