Olgahan Cat

Olgahan Cat is a summer research fellow at the Civitas Institute and a Ph.D. candidate in UT-Austin’s government department. His current research focuses on public attitudes towards migrants and forcibly displaced people. Using survey experiments in the U.S. and Turkey, he introduces the concept of “projected patriotism” to understand how public attitudes towards conflict migrants are shaped. He has been published on how foreign aid affects conflict intensity in sub-Saharan Africa, using observational data, and on the effect of messaging on vaccine hesitancy in the U.S., South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, and Taiwan, using field experiments through Facebook ads. He received an M.A. from Sabanci University, Turkey, and a B.A. from Bogazici University, Turkey, both in economics.