The study examined the wage premium on higher education obtained at different types of institutions in Israel. It tracked all the individuals born between 1978 and 1985, and relied on a variety of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the students and their families, achievements in...

This paper provides new evidence on the external neighborhood benefits of homeownership among low-income populations. A natural experiment in Israel generated large changes in neighborhood homeownership rates while holding fixed the residents and housing stock, two primary sources of bias in...

This paper examines the extent of local authorities' involvement in funding instruction hours in Israel's regular official primary education system, and its effect on the extent of affirmative action in the number of hours available to students from a weak socioeconomic background. Between 2001...

We examine the effect of the first-degree students' employment on the prolongation of their studies. When employing a popular instrumental variable, the regional unemployment rate, we find a negative impact of students' employment on duration of studies. Then, adding a predetermined IV - the...