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Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 13Student Performance Under Asynchronous and Synchronous Methods in Distance Education: A Quasi-Field Experiment(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2022-11) Demirtas, Burak Kagan; Turk, UmutThis study examines student performance under asynchronous and synchronous methods in a microeconomics course during COVID-19 pandemic. We conduct a quasi-field experiment in a state university in Turkey. In the experiment, students were divided into synchronous and asynchronous groups and were taught the same weekly material of microeconomics by the methods respective to their group. At the end of the week, both groups took the same multiple question test. Our results showed that asynchronous group performed significantly better than the synchronous group. While showing the comparative advantage of the asynchronous method, our study also underlines the importance of interaction between instructors and students. We discuss our findings from a socioeconomic perspective, where we argue that the flexibility that the asynchronous method offers might have compensated for the accessibility issues (internet and/or computer) during the COVID-19 outbreak. As a policy recommendation, universities can offer lectures with a recorded option to allow students to interact with the course material multiple times.Article Citation - Scopus: 1Spillover Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction Based on Horizontal Fairness: A Lab Experiment(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022-03-10) Demirtas, Burak KaganThis paper analyses how a minimum wage introduction affects reservation wages and wage offers based on horizontal fairness with a lab experiment with two experimental settings. The first experimental setting was applied to two types of workers (low or high skills), whereas there are one type of workers in the second setting but two types of sectors, covered and uncovered sectors, depending on whether the minimum wage is enforced. Results show the minimum wage introduction generates spillover effects on the high-skilled workers' reservation wages and wage offers, whereas there is no evidence of the spillover effect on the uncovered sector.