Gulcan Cil, Ph.D., Associate Scientist

Education & Training
B.S., 2005
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Economics
MA, 2009
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Economics
Ph.D., 2015
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Economics
Postdoctoral, 2016
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental and Public Health Economics
Associate Scientist Gulcan Cil, Ph,.D., is a health economist with a particular focus on policy impact evaluation and identification of the effects of behavioral and environmental factors on health and other socio-economic outcomes. Her research expertise is in analyses of large data sets from administrative records using modern statistical techniques for improved causal inference. She has extensive experience in large-scale policy evaluation in terms of behavioral responses they induce and their impacts on individual outcomes. She has also participated in cost studies for school-based programs, and studies that involve population-level evaluation of school- or community-based programs.
Current Projects
PROJECT PERIOD07/01/22 - 06/30/27 FUNDING AGENCYUnited States Department of Education CURRENT STATUSActive and Not Recruiting TEAMPrincipal Investigator Co-Investigators |
PROJECT PERIOD07/01/22 - 06/30/24 FUNDING AGENCYNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) CURRENT STATUSActive and Recruiting TEAMPrincipal Investigator Co-Investigators |
PROJECT PERIOD07/01/22 - 06/30/27 FUNDING AGENCYInstitute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education CURRENT STATUSActive and Recruiting TEAMPrincipal Investigator Co-Investigators |
ICBT for Maternal Depression: Community Implementation in Head Start
PROJECT PERIOD04/01/21 - 03/31/26 FUNDING AGENCYNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) CURRENT STATUSActive and Not Recruiting TEAMPrincipal Investigator Co-Investigators |
PROJECT PERIOD07/01/20 - 06/30/25 FUNDING AGENCYUnited States Department of Education CURRENT STATUSActive and Not Recruiting TEAMPrincipal Investigator Co-Investigators |
Publications
Clarke, B., Cil, G., Smolkowski, K., Sutherland, M., Turtura, J., Doabler, C. T., Fien, H., & Baker, S. K. (2020). Conducting a cost effectiveness analysis of an early numeracy intervention. School Psychology Review, 49(4), 359-373. https://doi.org/?10.1080/2372966x.2020.1761236
Cil G, Park J, Bergen AW. Self-reported prescription drug use for pain and for sleep and Incident frailty. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Dec;67(12):2474-2481.
Cil, Gulcan (2017). Effects of posted point-of-sale warnings on alcohol consumption during pregnancy and on birth outcomes. Journal of Health Economics, 53, 131-155.
Cil, Gulcan, and Cameron, Trudy (2017). Potential climate change health risks from increases in heat waves: Abnormal birth outcomes and adverse maternal health conditions. Risk Analysis, 37:11, 2066-2079.
Experience
2017-Present
Associate Scientist, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR
2016-2017
Visiting Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2015-2016
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab, Western Ecology Division (WED), Corvallis, OR.