Cavit Baran is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Sabancı University, Türkiye. His research spans health economics, environmental economics, and economic history, focusing on how environmental exposures, public policies, and early-life circumstances shape health, human capital formation, and long-run socioeconomic outcomes.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2021. Before joining Sabancı University, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, from 2021 to 2023.