Olgahan Cat
Summer Research Fellow
Olgahan Cat is a Ph.D. candidate in UT-Austin’s government department. His current research focuses on public attitudes towards migrants and forcibly displaced people. Using survey experiments in the U.S. and Turkey, he introduces the concept of “projected patriotism” to understand how public attitudes towards conflict migrants are shaped. He also published on how foreign aid affects conflict intensity in sub-Saharan Africa using observational data, and the effect of messaging on vaccine hesitancy in the U.S., South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, and Taiwan via field experiments through Facebook ads. He received his M.A. from Sabanci University, Turkey, and B.A. from Bogazici University, Turkey, both in economics.
EDUCATION
M.A. from Sabanci University, Turkey
B.A. from Bogazici University, Turkey
