EDUCATION
1988-1994 Ph.D., Economics and Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1986-1988 M.A., Economics and Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1983-1986 B.A., Economics and Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1985-1988 Teacher Assistant, Department of Economics and Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1988-1993 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Economics and Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
1993-1996 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
1996-2000 Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
2000 Tenure, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
2000-2003 Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
2002-2007 Vice chair, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
2003-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
2007 -Present Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
2008-2011 Chairman Scholarship Committee for MA students of the University, Bar-Ilan University.
2008-2011 Chairman Committee for MA students of the University, Bar-Ilan University
2011- 2016 Dean, School of Graduate Studies, University, Bar-Ilan University.
Chairman, Scholarship Committee for PhD students.
Chairman, Scholarship Committee for MA students.
Chairman, President’s Scholarship Committee for PHD students.
2015 -2019 Chairman, Unit for Diploma and External Studies
2016-2019 Dean, The Center for Designated Programs, previously named: Regional Colleges, Preparatory Programs and (Credential and Certificated Programs).
2000-2006 Board member and Chairman of the Audit Committee –EcTel Ld (NASAQ:ECTX)
2013-2019 Member of the finance committee, Bar-Ilan University.
2018–Present Sir Isaac Wolfson Chair in Economics, Bar-Ilan University
2019–2024 Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2001-Present Associate Editor, Journal of Population Economics
2007 -Present Associate Editor, economics
2008-Present Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Political Science Journal
2020–Present Associate Editor, Journal of Economics, Management and Religion
2021–Present Editorial Board, Economics Innovative and Economic’s Research Journal.
2006 Editor, Special Issue on Political Economy and Population Economics, Journal of Population
Economics 19(2), 2006, (with Alessandro Cigno).
RESEARCH INSTITUTION AFFILIATIONS
1997-2005 Research Affiliate, CEPR, London.
1999-Present Research Fellow, IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn
2002-Present Sidney I. Simon Fellow – Rutgers University
2006-Present Research Fellow, CReAM - Centre for Research and Analysis Of Migration, London.
2010-Present LdA Fellow, Ld’A Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, Milano, Italy
2016-Present Research Fellow – RWI, Germany
2017-Present Research Fellow, GLO – Global Labor Organization, Germany
2018-Present Principle Researcher and Labor Policy Program Chair, Taub Center, Social Policy Studies in Israel,
Jerusalem.
2020-Present Member, Academiae Europaeae (5473).