Short Bio & Research Interest

I'm an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at Tel Aviv University, a Research Fellow at the CEPR, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. I'm also a Voting Member of the Monetary  Committee of the Bank of Israel. ​I received my Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 2002 and spent a year as a Post–Doctoral Fellow at MIT. During the academic year 2009-2010, I held a position of a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
 

My broad interest is in demographic change, gender differences, and their interaction with economic growth. Recently I’ve been involved in three research agendas. First, I examined the interaction between income inequality and fertility choice through the marketization of childcare. Secondly, I examine how political preferences shape gender differences among top executives. Finally, I examine how changes in bargaining power within the household affect fertility choice and investment in children’s education. 

Current Research Projects

Politics and Gender in the Executive Suite​​ (with Alma Cohen and David Weiss)​

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• Summary in ​Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

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The Politics of CEOs, Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol. 11, pp. 1-45, 2019 (with Alma Cohen, Roberto Tallarita, and David Weiss).

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• NYT, WSJ, CNN, AXIOS, Marginal Revolution, Quartz, TheMarker (Hebrew)

• Summary in Vox  & ​Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance