CV
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh 2014-present
IZA Research Affiliate
Penn State Population Research Institute, External Affiliate
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, Boston MA, May 2014
Dissertation Title: Female Labor Supply and Assortative Mating
Main Advisor: Claudia Olivetti
M.A., Economics (with distinction), Tel Aviv University, August 2006
Thesis under the supervision of Zvi Eckstein
B.A., Economics (with honors), Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, July 2003
Fields of Interest
Labor Economics, Family Economics, Applied Econometrics
Teaching Experience
Econometrics (Undergraduate), University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
Labor Economics (PhD), University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2015, 2016, 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
Labor Economics (Undergraduate), University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2015, 2016, 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
Teaching Fellow, Principles of Microeconomics, Department of Economics, Boston University, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall, 2008
Teaching Fellow, Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, Boston University, Fall 2011, Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics, Tel Aviv University, Fall 2003-Spring 2005
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics, Tel Aviv University, Fall 2003-Spring 2005
Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics, Academic College of Tel Aviv, Fall 2003-Spring 2005
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics, Academic College of Tel Aviv, Fall 2003-Spring 2005
Fellowships, Awards and Grants
United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation ($270,000), Fall 2021
Summer Research Grant, Department of Economics, Boston University, Summer 2011
Fellow of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 2007-2013
Scholarship/ Award for a one year program from the ADVA center, Tel Aviv, Aug 2006 – August 2007
Award of Alfred Akirov (benefactor of E. Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University), 2006
Merit – based Scholarship from the Academic College of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, 2001 – 2003
Work Experience
NBER Research Assistant to Professors Iain Cockburn & Ernst Berndt (2012-2014)
NBER Research Assistant to Professors Iain Cockburn & Ernst Berndt (2010-2011)
Research Assistant to Professor Laurence Kotlikoff (June 2009- September 2010)
Manager, KATA Industries, Israel (1999 – 2006)
Publications
“Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply,” (with Osnat Lifshitz) – Forthcoming at Review of Economic Dynamics.
“The Effects of Mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Foster Care Admissions” (with Osea Giuntella and Ning Zhang). Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2022.
“Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Neonatal Outcomes” (with Osea Giuntella and Ning Zhang). Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 2020.
“Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased,” (with Kevin Lang) Research in Labor Economics, November 2020.
“Measuring the Rate of Replications in Economics,” (with Jim Berry, Lucas Coffman, Douglas Hanley, and Alistair Wilson). American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, May 2017, 107(5).
“Nuns and the Effects of Catholic Schools. Evidence from Vatican II,” (with G. Osea Giuntella). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, May 2017.
Working Papers
“The Effect of Negotiation on Securing Equal Pay for Equal Work” (with Rachel Landsman and Lise Vesterlund)
"Dreaming of Leaving the Nest" (with Osea Giuntella and Jakub Lonsky) Under review
“The Boomerang College Kids: Coresidence and Job Mismatch” (with Stefania Albanesi and Ning Zhang)
“Household Insurance and The Macroeconomic Impact of the Novel Corona Virus” (with Stefania Albanesi, Jiyeon Kim and Jialin Huo)
“Robots and Work Related Health Risks” (with Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella and Tianyi Wang) Under review
“Delayed American Dream? Student debt, Family Formation and Homeownership” (with Stefania Albanesi and Ning Zhang)
“Gender Differences in Likeability and Team Synergy” (with Erin Giffin and Rachel Landsman)
“Gender Specific Labor Market Shocks and Bargaining Power: a Machine Learning Application to Scanner Data” (with Osea Giuntella, Kelly Hyde and Dor Morag)
“Economic Migrants, Refugees and Entrepreneurship” (with Luca Stella and Osea Giuntella)
Conferences & Presentations
University of Colorado Denver 2022
Families, Schools, and Neighborhoods Conference, University of Rochester 2021
University at Buffalo SUNY 2021
University of Michigan 2021
University of Venice 2021
Society of Economic Dynamics 2019
Society of Labor Economists 2019
Alp-Pop Conference 2019
Health Econometrics Workshop 2018
Society of Economic Dynamics 2017
Society of labor Economists 2017
Economic Demography Workshop 2017
Alp-Pop Conference 2017
Eastern Economic Association Conference 2015
Society of Labor Economists Meetings 2014
Family Economics and Family Policy Workshop, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW Mannheim), November 2013
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASM), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, June 2013
Royal Economic Society (RES), Royal Holloway, University of London, London, April 2013
European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Bonn, September 2012
European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Bern, June 2012
Population Association of America (PAA), 2012 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, May 2012
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture (ASREC), Orange County, March 2012
Refereeing Activity
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, AER Insights, Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Demography, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, American Economic Journal: Applied, Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Journal: Macro, Review of Economic Dynamics, Quantitative Economics, Management Science, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Demographic Economics, Labour, Review of Economics of the Household, Social Forces, PLOS One, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Development Studies, European Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Letters, Contemporary Economic Policy
Graduate Advising
Rachel Landsman (Assistant Prof., Bucknell University; Co-chair); Felipe de Araujo (Lehigh University), Marc Azic (Federal Trade Commission), Ning Zhang (University of Oxford PostDoc; Co-chair)
Undergraduate Research Supervision
Adrienne Newcomer, BPhil (2018) – joined Georgetown University Graduate Program
Languages: English, French, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian
Computer Skills: STATA, EViews, GAUSS, MATLAB, LATEX, ArcGIS and Excel