Eric Gould was a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has been since completing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1996.  He is also an associate editor of Labour Economics and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London.  Professor Gould's research focuses on various topics in labor economics, with an emphasis on understanding the causes and consequences of increasing income inequality in many developed countries.  His work has been published in leading academic journals in economics, such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, and The Review of Economics and Statistics among others. In 2004, he received the H. Gregg Lewis Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Labor Economics from 2002-2003.  In 2006, Gould published a study of the Brain Drain from Israel (with Senior Fellow Omer Moav) through the Shalem Center's Institute for Economic and Social Policy.  He is continuing his work on the brain drain as well as conducting a study of poverty rates in Israel.