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To see my research by topic, click here Research interests My research areas are economic history and applied microeconomics. This research statement summarizes my work. Book The Mystery of the Kibbutz: How Socialism Succeeded, under contract with Princeton University Press A presentation of my book (August 2012) An article about my kibbutz project (Stanford Magazine, September 2012) Non-technical earlier summary of my ongoing kibbutz project (SIEPR newsletter, 2009)
Working papers
“How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistributive Policies and in Returns?,” with Victor Lavy, revise and resubmit, Econometrica [current draft: April 2012] Featured in Wall Street Journal (June 17, 2011), NBER Digest summary (November 2011)
“A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration,” with Leah Boustan and Katherine Eriksson [current draft : August 2012]
“Book Translations as Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge,” with Isabelle Sin [current draft: May 2012]
Published and forthcoming papers “Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the Age of Mass Migration,” with Leah Boustan and Katherine Eriksson, Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming Featured in Stanford Daily (March 8, 2013)
“Europe’s Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration,” with Leah Boustan and Katherine Eriksson, American Economic Review, 102:5, 1832-1856, August 2012 Featured in Vox (February 12, 2010)
“On the Optimality of Line Call Challenges in Professional Tennis,” with Liran Einav, Shimon Kolkowitz, and Roy Mill, International Economic Review, 53:3, 939-964, August 2012
“Marrying Up: the Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching,” with Adeline Delavande and Luis Vasconcelos, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3:3, 124-157, July 2011 Featured in Times (March 15, 2012)
“Lessons from the Kibbutz on the Equality-Incentives Trade-Off,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25:1, 185-208, Winter 2011
“On the (lack of) Stability of Communes: An Economic Perspective,” Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion (Edited by Rachel McCleary), Oxford University Press, Chapter 9, 169-189, 2011
“Risk, Incentives and Contracts: Partnerships in Rio De Janeiro, 1870-1891,” with Zephyr Frank and Aprajit Mahajan, Journal of Economic History, 70:3, 686-715, September 2010
Is Hanukkah Responsive to Christmas? with Liran Einav and Oren Rigbi Economic Journal, 120, 612-630, June 2010 Featured in the Washington Post (December 22, 2011), The Economist (December 17, 2011), Financial Times (December 17, 2010), The Jewish Journal (November 19, 2010), Slate Magazine (December 19, 2008), The Boston Globe (July 4, 2010), and the following blogs: Portfolio.com, Free Market Mojo, Bloghead (2010)
The Effect of Redistribution on Migration: Evidence from the Israeli Kibbutz Journal of Public Economics, 93, 498-511, 2009 Previously circulated as “Testing Self-Selection in Migration: Evidence from the Israeli Kibbutz”.
The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123:3, 1111-1159, August 2008 Featured in Forbes (May 9, 2008), and the following blogs: Plumer, DeLong
The Limits of Equality: an Economic Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz Journal of Economic History, 67(2), 495-499, 2007 [dissertation summary] Comments by Carol Shiue, the convener of the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize Panel, published in the same issue of the JEH, pp. 511-515
Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas with Fabio Braggion Journal of Economic History, 66(4), 882-905, December 2006
Published short articles: “Malthusian and neo-Malthusian Theories”, with Fabio Braggion, The Oxford Encyclopedia of economic history, Oxford University Press, 2003: Vol 3, pp. 423-427 “Lenin Vladimir Ilich”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of economic history, Oxford University Press, 2003: Vol 3, pp. 297-299 “Du Pont Family”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of economic history, Oxford University Press, 2003: Vol 2, pp. 115-116 “Kettering Charles”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of economic history, Oxford University Press, 2003: Vol 3, pp. 217-218 “Lewis John L.”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of economic history, Oxford University Press, 2003: Vol 3, pp. 323-324 “Vanderbilt Family”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of economic history, Oxford University Press, 2003: Vol 5: 187-188 |
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