Murat Iyigun is the Stanford Calderwood Chair in Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His main research interests lie in the areas of the economics of the family, development economics, political economy and cliometrics.

Murat Iyigun received his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1995. Prior to joining the University of Colorado in August 2000, he was a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, USA. His research has been published in a variety of outlets including Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies and International Economic Review. His general interest book, War, Peace and Prosperity in the Name of God was published by The University of Chicago Press in 2015.

Professor Iyigun joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2005.