Ulaş Karakoç

Assistant Professor of Economics, Kadir Has University, Istanbul

I study agriculture, the environment and development in Türkiye, both today and over the long twentieth century: the transformation of agricultural and rural economies, crop yields and land use, climate risk, smallholder farming, and how farming can decarbonise. In my empirical work, I combine historical statistics, satellite data and econometrics, and I explore ways to widen the adoption of sustainable practices in agriculture.

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Selected publications

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Concentration with Convergence: Regional Productivity Patterns in Türkiye, 1950–2020 Karakoç · Economic History Review, forthcomingNew
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Macroeconomics of Greening Turkish Agriculture: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Input Rationalization Policies Karakoç & Yeldan · Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2025
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Regional Inequalities and the West–East Divide in Turkey since 1913 Aşık, Karakoç & Pamuk · Economic History Review, 2023
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Overcoming the Egyptian Cotton Crisis in the Interwar Period: The Role of Irrigation, Drainage, New Seeds and Access to Credit Karakoç & Panza · Economic History Review, 2021
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Current projects

TÜBİTAK 1001 · 2024–2026

Long-run crop yields in Türkiye

Yield trends since 1930, their sensitivity to climate, and regional yield prediction with econometrics and machine learning.

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CropAtlas Türkiye

An interactive atlas of provincial yields, farm inputs and growing-season climate, 1930–2024.

Upcoming project

Seeing no-till from space

Monitoring conservation tillage, land use and carbon farming potential in rainfed Central Anatolia with satellite data, in collaboration with ZALF in Berlin.

Consultancy

Impact evaluation

Evaluations of firm-support and development programmes for international organisations.

Recent writing

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