I am a senior lecturer (with tenure) at the Department of Economics of the University of Haifa.
I obtained a Ph.D. in economics and the study of rationality from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2015 and was a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow in economics at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, in 2014-2016.
I have published in top field journals such as Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Micro, Journal of Economic Growth, European Economic Review and Games and Economic Behavior.
My main research interests are Political, Social and Cultural Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Law and Economics. In particular, I study the underlying psychological and behavioral mechanisms that drive social, political and legal phenomena.
Department of Economics, University of Haifa
199 Aba Khoushy Ave.
Mount Carmel, Haifa
Israel 3498838
Email: motimich@econ.haifa.ac.il
(with Daniel Spiro)
Forthcoming in European Journal of Political Economy
On the Coevolution of Individualism and Institutions [WP version here]
(with Israel Eruchimovitch and Assaf Sarid)
Journal of Economic Growth (2024). 29, 3, p. 391–432.
Non-Confrontational Extremists [WP version here]
(with Daniel Chen and Daniel Spiro)
European Economic Review (2023), 157, 104521.
The Vanishing Trial: A Dynamic Model with Adaptive Agents
(with Yosef Zohar)
Public Choice (2023), 196(3-4), p. 277-298.
Civicness Drain [WP version here]
(with Marco Casari, Andrea Ichino, Maria De Paola, Ginevra Marandola
and Vincenzo Scoppa)
Economic Journal (2023), 133(649), 323-354.
Fighting Polarization with (Parental) Internalization [WP version here]
(with Jiabin Wu)
Journal of Economic and Behavior Organization (2022), 194(11-12), 124-138
On Measuring Welfare `Behind a Veil of Ignorance’ [WP version here]
Social Choice & Welfare (2020), 56(1), 57-66.
Grouping, In-Group Bias and the Cost of Cheating
Games and Economic Behavior (2020), 121, 90-107.
Prescriptive Norms and Social Comparisons
(with Daniel Spiro)
Games (2018) [feature article], 9(4), 97.
From Peer Pressure to Biased Norms
(with Daniel Spiro)
The American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2017), 9(1), 152-216.
Norm Conformity across Societies [WP version here]
(with Daniel Spiro)
Journal of Public Economics (2015), 132, 51-65.
Economic Theory (2014), 56(3), 515-547.
Legitimizing Policy (with Daniel Chen and Daniel Spiro)
Are Anti-Vaxxers Anti Social? How Convictions Shape Prosocial Behavior and Vaccination Decisions (with Amnon Maltz and Sapir Gavriel)
Interpersonal Trust During Times of Political Unrest (with Amnon Maltz)
Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk? How Convictions Shape Behavior (with Amnon Maltz)
Link to my Google Scholar page