Ceren Baysan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Professor at Bahçeşehir University. She studies how extant institutions and institutional change interact with individual beliefs, perceptions, and preferences in societies to shape outcomes ranging from conflict to polarization, social integration, and economic behavior. She received her PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. She is also affiliated with the J-PAL and the Development Economics and Political Economy groups of the CEPR and the NBER.
