Current Position

I am a PhD student in Health Economics at the University of Basel as of December 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Felder.

Fields of interest

• Health Economics
• Applied Econometrics
• Medical Decision Making
• Economic Consequences of Mental Health

Publications

Sevim, Dilek, and Stefan Felder (2022). Decision thresholds for medical tests under ambiguity aversion. Frontiers in Health Services, 2: 825315.

Work in Progress

• Value and Demand for Genetic Information and Ambiguity Aversion Revisited (with Stefan Felder) 
• Determinants of Socio-emotional Health in Early Childhood: Evidence from an RCT Treating Maternal Depression (with Victoria Baranov, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, Joanna Maselko)
• Cross-partner Mental Health Effects of Retirement in Europe during COVID-19 Pandemic 

Education

• M.A. in Business and Economics, University of Zurich, CH
• B.Sc. in Mathematics, Bogazici University, TR

Teaching Assistance

• FS 2022 Health Insurance (Master’s Level), University of Basel
• HS 2021 Evaluation of Health Care Services (Master’s Level), University of Basel
• HS 2020 Advanced Health Economics (Master’s Level), University of Basel
• FS 2020 Supervision of Bachelor’s Theses in Health Economics, University of Basel