Dilek Yildiz
Research Scholar
Multidimensional Demographic Modeling Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Research Scholar
Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Dilek Yildiz joined the World Population (POP) Program as a research scholar in July 2017. She completed her PhD on 'Combining administrative data sources to estimate population counts' at the University of Southampton, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, in 2016. Previously, she worked as a teaching assistant and as a researcher at the University of Southampton. She also worked at various stages of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey-2008, and as a research assistant at Hacettepe University, where she also completed her MSc in Economic and Social Demography. Her current research interests are in statistical demography with a focus on Bayesian projections/reconstruction of multistate populations, population count estimates, and investigating on the use of big data sources. Dr. Yildiz has also been working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography since February 2016.Last update: 15 JAN 2018
Publications
Özdemir, C., Reiter, C. , Yildiz, D. , & Goujon, A. (2022). Projections of adult skills and the effect of COVID-19. PLoS ONE 17 (11) e0277113. 10.1371/journal.pone.0277113.
Gonzalez-Leonardo, M., Potančoková, M. , Yildiz, D. , & Rowe, F. (2022). Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on immigration in receiving high-income countries. OSF Preprints 10.31219/osf.io/tqfu6. (Submitted)
Abel, G. & Yildiz, D. (2022). Closing disparities between European sending and receiving international migration flow data. Regional Studies, Regional Science 9 (1) 523-525. 10.1080/21681376.2022.2096478.
Lutz, W., Reiter, C. , Özdemir, C., Yildiz, D. , Guimaraes, R. , & Goujon, A. (2021). Skills-adjusted human capital shows rising global gap. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (7) e2015826118. 10.1073/pnas.2015826118.