Tuğba Bozçağa is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Her research interests lie in comparative political economy and political economy of development, with a substantive focus on local governance, distributive politics, social welfare, ethnic politics, and migration. She studies her research questions in the Middle East context by triangulating quasi-experimental statistical designs, novel data sources, and hypotheses and research designs informed by fieldwork and archival research. Her work has won the Best Comparative Policy Paper Award from the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and Honorable Mention for the APSA MENA Politics Section Best Paper Award.