Umut Oğuzoğlu

Professor  ·  University of Manitoba  ·  IZA Research Fellow

I am a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, where I have been a faculty member since 2008. I served as Department Head from 2022 to 2025. I am also a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, which I joined in 2007.

My research sits at the intersection of labour economics, health economics, and applied econometrics. I work on variety of applied topics including disability and labour force dynamics, retirement, STEM major choice, rural physician labour supply and intergenerational health outcomes.

You can find my CV here, or visit the Research page for current projects and publications.

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Umut Oguzoglu

Selected Recent Publications

  • Short-term Effect of Retirement on Health: Evidence from Nonparametric Fuzzy RD. Health Economics2023
  • International Reserves and Economic Growth. International Review of Economics & Finance2021
  • Impacts from Delaying Access to Retirement Benefits on Welfare Receipt. The Economic Record — Best Paper Prize2020
  • Why Past Disabilities Still Haunt the Newly Healthy. Review of Economic Analysis2020
  • Disability and Multi-state Labour Force Choices with State Dependence. Economic Record2016

Contact

Address 647 Fletcher Argue
Department of Economics
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V5
Canada Email umut.oguzoglu[at]umanitoba.ca Affiliations Department of Economics, U of M