Omer Moav

Omer Moav is a former Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center and a Professor at the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the department of Economics at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He completed his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999, and a post doctoral fellowship at MIT. Prof. Moav's research focuses on economic growth, with an emphasis on income inequality, demography and human capital, as well as the Israeli economy. Moav's research has appeared in leading journals of economics, such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economic Studies, The American Economic Review, The Economic Journal and The Journal of Economic Growth, among others. In particular, his work on the tax burden in Israel, the failure of capital investment subsidies in creating jobs in the periphery, and the study of the "brain drain" of young Israeli academics, entrepreneurs, and professionals who leave the Jewish State has been cited in the media and as part of ongoing public debate. In 2008 Moav was nominated by the President of the Supreme Court, judge Dorit Beinish, to serve as a member of a state commission of inquiry into the government's treatment of Holocaust survivors in Israel, headed by Judge Dalia Dorner.  The three member of committee submitted its report in June 2008.  In addition, Moav was nominated by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to a commission headed by the chief Government Statistician to offer develop improved measures of poverty levels in Israel.

Bibliography

Select Publications

"Justice for all: Victims of Heftsiba collapse should not be treated better than other bankruptcy victims", Ynet News, 22.08.07

"Das Human-Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure," (with Oded Galor) Review of Economic Studies 73 (2006)

"Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty" Economic Journal 115 (2005), pp. 88-110.

"From Physical to Human Capital: Inequality in the Process of Development," (with Oded Galor) Review of Economic Studies 71 (2004), pp. 1001-1026.

"Social Stratification, Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Non-Monotonic Evolution of the Education Premium," (with Yishay Maoz( Macroeconomic Dynamics 8 (2004) pp. 295-309 (Lead article)

"Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth," (with Oded Galor) Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (2002) pp. 1133-1191 (Lead article)

"Income Distribution and Macroeconomics: The Persistence of Inequality in a Convex Technology Framework," Economics Letters 75 (2002) pp. 187-192

"Skill Obsolescence and Wage Inequality Within Education Groups," (with Eric Gould and Bruce Weinberg) In The Economics of  Skill Obsolescence, eds. A. Grip, J. Loo, and K. Mayhew in the book series Research in Labor Economics, series ed. Solomon Polachek (2002), pp. 21, 215-234

"Precautionary Demand for Education, Inequality and Technological Progress," (Eric Gould and Bruce Weinberg) Journal of Economic Growth  6, (2001) pp. 285-316. 

"Evolution and Growth," (with Oded Galor) European Economic Review 45 (2001), pp. 718-729

"Ability Biased Technological Transition, Wage Inequality and Economic Growth," (with Oded Galor) Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, (2001), pp. 469-497
Reprinted in: Recent Developments in Growth Theory, ed. D. Acemoglu (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2004)

"Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Development," (with Yishay Maoz) Economic Journal 109 (1999) pp. 677-697

"The Kibbutz Dining Room - A Model for Privatization" The Economic Quarterly (1996) pp. 33-44 [Hebrew]

"How to Solve the Problem of Labor Strikes," (with Hadas Gabay) Tchelet 22 (Winter 2005), pp. 74-90. 

"Fertility Clubs and Economic Growth," In Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications, eds. Theo Eicher and Stephen Turnovsky (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003), pp. 61-87

Courses Taught

Economics: Foundations and Applications in Israel

Workship in Economic Research