I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of California Santa Barbara.

My research is in experimental and behavioral economics as well as applied theory. You can find my curriculum vita here.

Department of Economics
UC Santa Barbara
3044 North Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9210
sevgi.yuksel@ucsb.edu

Beliefs in Repeated Games [pdf] [Online Appendix] (joint with Masaki Aoyagi and Guillaume Fréchette) - May, 2022.

Discrimination Without Reason: Biases in Statistical Discrimination [pdf] (joint with Ignacio Esponda and Ryan Oprea) - Revising for the Quarterly Journal of Economics - January, 2022.

Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect [pdf] [Procedures Appendix] (joint with Ignacio Esponda and Emanuel Vespa) - Revising for the American Economic Review - June, 2020.

Searching for Information and the Diffusion of Knowledge (joint with Jacopo Perego) - currently being revised: new draft available upon request.

Specialized Learning and Political Polarization [pdf] - International Economic Review - 63.1 (2022): 457-474.

Media Competition and Social Disagreement [pdf] (joint with Jacopo Perego) - Econometrica 90.1 (2022): 223-265.

Social Exchange of Motivated Beliefs [pdf] (joint with Ryan Oprea) - Journal of the European Economic Association 20.2 (2022): 667-699.

How Do People Choose Between Biased Information Sources? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment [pdf] (joint with Gary Charness and Ryan Oprea) - Journal of the European Economic Association 19.3 (2021): 1656-1691.

When Is Inequality Fair? An Experiment on the Effect of Procedural Justice and Agency [pdf] [Online Appendix] (joint with Merve Akbas and Dan Ariely) - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 161 (2019): 114-127.

Finding Cooperators: Sorting Through Repeated Interaction [pdf] [Online Appendix] (joint with Mark Bernard and Jack Fanning) - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 147 (2018): 76-94.

Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma [pdf] [Online Appendix] (joint with Matthew Embrey and Guillaume Fréchette) - The Quarterly Journal of Economics 133.1 (2017): 509-551.

Infinitely Repeated Games in the Laboratory: Four Perspectives on Discounting and Random Termination [pdf] [Online Appendix] (joint with Guillaume Fréchette) - Experimental Economics 20.2 (2017): 279-308. (Winner: 2017 Editor's Award for best paper published in Experimental Economics.)