Media

2025

2024

  • Contemporary Dynamics of Marriage

    Professor Berkay Ozcan was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion at Boodle Hatfield LLP with family law experts and journalists, to talk about his research and discuss the contemporary dynamics of marriage, exploring what motivates people to enter into the legal union of marriage and whether we should continue to award a special status to the married in society.
  • (Turkish) Zorunlu Göç ve Doğurganlık

    Konuğumuz Berkay Özcan ile göç, yaşlanan nüfus, doğum oranları ve bunların sosyal ve ekonomik politikaların şekillenmesindeki rolü üzerine konuşuyoruz.

2023

2020

  • Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe

    “At a moment when policymakers are putting increased efforts into tackling gender gaps in the labour market, it is worth asking whether robotization could worsen pay disparities between men and women. Using new evidence from 20 European countries, this column finds that men at medium- and high-skill…”

2019

  • Divorce likely to put weight on children, study finds

    “Children whose parents are divorced are more likely to get fat than those whose parents stay together, say researchers.The weight gain is particularly marked in children whose parents divorce before they are six, the study found, external…”
  • Beyond nutrition? Childhood obesity linked to parental divorce

    “As the battle against childhood obesity continues, research is increasingly identifying wide-ranging obesity risk factors that could be targeted through early intervention or policies. Along these lines, the amount of energy used by the brain in childhood…”

2018

  • Culture matters in saving behaviour

    Previous studies have shown that saving rates are influenced by, among other things, demographics and income, but much of the difference in saving rates across societies remains unexplained. This column uses data covering three generations of immigrants in the UK to demonstrate that culture is an important explanation for cross-country differences in saving behaviour. When designing incentives to save, culture should therefore be taken into account.
  • Gender Pay Gap Reporting

    Ernst&Young  UK Regulatory Outlook Podcasts. 
    Gender Pay Gap Reporting – views from Dr. Berkay Ozcan, London School of Economics and Political Science. Listen to the podcast from here.

2012

  • Aftermath of the Financial Crisis: New Challenges for the Left

    “Three main priorities the political-Left should be focused on in the aftermath of the financial crisis: they must produce new ideas if they are to supplant neo-liberal ideology, properly express their aims in order to effectively communicate with the electorate, and focus on organising capital rather than labour…”

  • Divorce-Threat Women Work Longer

    “Women whose marriages are on the brink of collapse work more hours as an insurance against divorce, a study has found. For every 1% increase in the risk of marital breakdown, women work an extra 12 minutes per week, research from the London School of Economics and Political Science found…”

  • Is your wife working late? It could be a sign that your marriage is in trouble

    Mail Online UK (Web), 13/11/2012, Damien Gayle
    “But the study also found that there is no strong evidence to suggest men do the same when a relationship isstruggling. Berkay Ozcan and his colleagues at theLondon School of Economics used the 1996 legalisation of divorcein Ireland to calculate how subsequent marriage breakdown rates affected women’s participation in the workforce. ‘Wesee women who are…”

  • When divorce is looming, women work for longer

    “The Daily Telegraph, 14/11/2012, p.13, Rosa Silverman
    WOMEN who fear their marriage is in trouble work longer hours, as they want to achieve financial security in case of adivorce, a study has found. Researchers at the London School of Economics discovered that for every one per centincrease in the risk of divorce, women worked an extra 12 minutes per week. The extra minutes represent…”

  • Se lei lavora di più, la separazione è in agguato

    “Per capire se il proprio matrimonio è sull’orlo di una crisi o prossimo al collasso, c’è un termometro in grado di misurarne la probabilità. E’, per altro, un termometro insolito: l’attività lavorativa di lei…”

2008

  • Risk of Divorce Leads People to Save More

    “Some commentators have suggested that today’s crisis represents a unique opportunity to motivate Americans to save more. Here is another potential saving strategy: increase the risk of divorce…”