Publications and Submitted Papers

• Trade Agreements, Bargaining and Economic Growth, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2011 (joint with Yishay D. Maoz and Dan Peled)
• A Dynamic Hierarchical Education System with Capital Skill Complementarity, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2017.
• A Review of "Culture and Economic Growth" by Enrico Spolaore, Journal for Regional Studies, 2015
• ​Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation (Joint with Oded Galor and Omer Ozak)​, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020.
  • ​Working paper version 
• Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits (Joint with Oded Galor and Omer Ozak)​
  • Coverage
    • Vox article
    • “There’s a nifty economic link between farming and grammar.” Wall Street Journal​
• Intragenerational Mobility of the Top Earners in Israel before and after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (Joint with Stav Federman and Meir Yaish)
• The Wheels of Change: Human Capital, Millwrights, and Industrialization in Eighteenth-Century England​ ( Joint with Karine Van Der Beek and Joel Mokyr) (Economic Journal), 2022.
  • ​Slides
  • ​Coverage
    • Vox article
• ​​On the Coevolution of Individualism and Institutions (joint with Moti Michaeli and Israel Eruchimovitch), Journal of Economic Growth, 2023.​
  • Coverage
    • Lecture (in Hebrew)
• ​​​Sectoral Heterogeneity, Inequality and Productivity Dynamics, 2021, (Joint with Yishay D. Maoz), Journal of Income Distribution (Forthcoming)

Working Papers

• Human Capital and Growth in a Panel of OECD Countries (Joint with Zvi Eckstein and Yuli (Yael) Tamir)​​
• Knowledge and Growth in a Panel and Cross Section of Nations (Joint with Zvi Eckstein and Yuli (Yael) Tamir)

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Work in Progress

• The Long-Run Cultural Effect of the Reconquista: ​Evidence from Portugal (Joint with Omer Ozak)
• Leviathan Or the Matter: Form and Power of Politeness (Joint with Oded Galor and Omer Ozak)
• Public Investment in a Hierarchical Education System: Implications to Inequality
• Breaking Barriers, Building (on) Networks, Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Germany (Joint with Israel Eruchimovitch)