Publications

Ph.D. Dissertation

Linking AFDC-Unemployed Parents to Work: Evaluating California’s 100 Hour Rule Waiver.  English, 129 pages, November 1996, University of California, Los Angeles.  Richard A. Berk, Committee Chair.

Articles in refereed journals and book chapters

38. Shamai, Michal, Alisa C. Lewin and Yasmin Ubud-Halabi.  "Trapped between neoliberal social context and professional socialization: The case of Israeli social workers in the social protest of 2011 and implications for the COVID-19 pandemic."  Social Work & Society. (forthcoming).

37. Lewin, Alisa C. and Haya Stier. 2025. "Post-retirement work, life satisfaction and emotional wellbeing among older adults in Israel."  Journal of Happiness Studies. 

36. Semyonov-Tal, Keren, Lurie, Lilach, Stier, Haya & Lewin, Alisa C. 2025. "It is Important for Some People to Continue Being Somebody: Highly Educated Women’s Employability After Retirement Age." Journal of Ageing & Social Policy.

35. Lewin, Alisa C., and Haya Stier. 2023.  "When Marriage Ends: Affluence and Poverty among Older Adults in Israel." European Journal of Population.  

34. Lewin, Alisa C., Michal Shamai and Sharon Novikov.2023. “Surviving in crisis mode: The effect of material hardship and social support on emotional wellbeing among people in poverty during COVID-19.”   Social Indicators Research 165(1): 245-265.

33. Lewin, Alisa C. 2022. "Affluence, Homeownership, and Poverty among Working-Age Immigrants: The Case of Israel" Population Space and Place .

32. Aharoni, Sarai, Amalia Sa’ar and Alisa C. Lewin. 2021. “Security as Care: Communitarianism and Gender in Southern Israel” Feminist Theory. 

31. Sa'ar, Amalia, Sarai Aharoni, and Alisa C. Lewin. 2021. “The Emotionalizaton of National Resilience: Depoliticizing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Emotions and Society. 

30. Aharoni, Sarai, Alisa C. Lewin and Amalia Sa'ar. 2020. “Gender/nationality intersections in attitudes towards gun carry among Israeli citizens.” Sociological Perspectives. 

29.  Rosenberg, Dennis and Alisa C. Lewin. 2019. “Marriage Patterns among Jewish Immigrants in Israel” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 

28. Lewin, Alisa C. and Haya Stier.  2018. "Marital Status, Gender, and Material Hardship: Evidence from Israel". Advances in Life Course Research 35:46-56. 

27. Lewin, Alisa C. 2018.  “Intentions to live together among people living apart: Differences by age and gender”. European Journal of Population, 34:721-743.

26. Sa'ar, Amalia, Sarai Aharoni, and Alisa C. Lewin. 2018. "Fencing In and Out: Israel's Separation Wall and the Whitewashing of State Violence" Review of International and American Studies, 11:113-134. 

25. Lewin, Alisa C. and Haya Stier. 2017.  “The Experience of Material and Emotional Hardship in Israel: Do Some Groups Cope Better than Others?” Social Indicators Research, 134:305-402.

24. Saar Amalia, Alisa C Lewin, and Dalit Simchai. 2017.  “Feminist Identifications Across the Ethno-National Divide: Jewish and Palestinian Students in Israel” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(6):1026-1045.

23. Lewin, Alisa C.  2017.  “Health and Relationship Quality Later in Life: A Comparison of LAT, First Marriages, Remarriages and Cohabitation”, Journal of Family Issues, 38: 1754-1774 

22. Stier, Haya and Alisa C. Lewin. 2013. “Material Hardship in Israel” in Dan Ben David (ed.) State of the Nation Report, Jerusalem: Taub Center. (Hebrew and English) pp. 313-333.

21. Lewin, Alisa C.2012. “Marriage Patterns among Palestinians in Israel.” European Journal of Population 28:359-380.

20. Waite, Linda J and Alisa C. Lewin. 2010. “Religion and Marriage: Patterns, Relationships and Mechanisms” in Religion, Families, and Health in the United States: New Directions in Population-Based Research, edited by Robert Hummer and Christopher Ellison Rutgers University Press pp 148-163.

19. Waite, Linda J., Ye Luo and Alisa C. Lewin. 2009. “Marital Happiness and Marital Stability: Long-Term Effects of Divorce on Emotional Well-Being.” Social Science Research 39: 201-212.

18. Darr, Asaf and Alisa C. Lewin. 2008. “The Implementation of Democratic Justice Regimes in the Israeli Taxi Sector: Economic Imperative or Ethnic Origin?” Journal of Socio-Economics 37, 5:2072-2079.

17. Mahay, Jenna and Lewin, Alisa C. 2007. “Age and the Desire to Marry” Journal of Family Issues 28(5): 706-723.

16. Lewin, Alisa C, Haya Stier and Dafna Caspi-Dror. 2006. “The Place of Opportunity: Structural and Individual Determinants of Poverty among Jews and Arabs in Israel” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 24:177-191.

15. Lewin, Alisa C. 2006. “Divorce in Israel: A Social Demographic Approach” Israeli Sociology, 8:65-85 (in Hebrew).

14. Lewin, Alisa C.  2005 “Marriage and the Family” in Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance, edited by Barbara Schneider and Linda J. Waite, Cambridge University Press pp 167 – 169.

13. Lewin, Alisa C and Eric Maurin. 2005. “Family Size and the Incentive Effects of Welfare Transfers in Two-parent Families: An Evaluation Using Experimental Data” Evaluation Review 29(6): 507-529.

12. Lewin Alisa C. 2005. “The Effect of Economic Stability on Family Stability among Welfare Recipients” Evaluation Review 29(3):223-240.

11. Lewin, Alisa C. and Haya Stier. 2003. “Immigration, State Support, and the Economic Well-being of the Elderly in Israel” Research on Aging 25(3):195-223.

10. Lewin, Alisa C. and Dahlia Elazar 2002. “Red Unions and Bourgeois Democracy: A Quantitative-Historical Analysis of Worker Militancy and Socialist Electoral Power” Social Science Research 31(4):594-629.

9. Lewin, Alisa C and Eric Maurin 2002. “Quels effets attendre de reformes permettant de cumuler emploi et aide sociale? Une evaluation sur donnיes expementales Americaines” Revue Economique 53(6):1357-1368. (in French).

8. Stier. Haya, and Alisa C Lewin 2002 “Does Women’s Employment Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Israel” Work, Employment and Society 16(2):211-230.

7. Stier, Haya, and Alisa Lewin. 2002. “The Effect of Women’s Employment on Poverty in Israel” Bitahon Sotziali 62:28-48 (Hebrew).

6. Lewin, Alisa C and Haya Stier 2002 “Who Benefits the Most? The Unequal Allocation of Transfers in the Israeli Welfare State” Social Science Quarterly 83:488-503.

5. Darr, Asaf and Alisa C Lewin 2001. “Democratic Justice Regimes in Work Organizations: The Case of Israeli Taxi Cooperatives” Economic and Industrial Democracy 22:383-405. [Re-printed in (2004) Work and Organizations in Israel, Harpaz and Samuel (eds.), Transaction Books]

4. Lewin, Alisa C. 2001.  “Changing Work Ethic and Welfare Dependence through Welfare Reform: The 100-Hour Rule Waiver Experiment for AFDC-U” Evaluation Review. 25(3):371-389.

3. Oppenheimer, Valerie K, and Alisa C Lewin. 1999.  “Career Development and Marriage Formation in a Period of Rising Inequality: Who is at Risk?  What are their Prospects?” in Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future? Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter and Michael J. Shanahan (eds.), Westport: Praeger pp.189-225.

2. Elazar, Dahlia S. and Alisa C. Lewin 1999 “The Effects of Political Violence: A Structural Equation Model of the Rise of Italian Fascism” Social Science Research 28:184-202.

1.Lewin, Alisa C. and Michael Mitchell 1999 “Using Group Mean Centering for Computing Adjusted Means by Site in a Randomized Experimental Design: The Case of California’s Work Pays Demonstration Project” Evaluation Review 23(2):146-161.

Working papers

1. Hasenfeld, Yeheskel, Alisa Lewin, Michael Mitchell and Dale Weaver.   “LINK-UP: Evaluation of the 100-Hour Rule Waiver for AFDC-U I. Impact and Cost Benefit Analysis,” Center for Child and Family Policy Studies, School for Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles.

2. Hasenfeld, Yeheskel, Alisa Lewin and Michael Mitchell.   “LINK-UP Evaluation of the 100-Hour Rule Waiver for AFDC-U: Impact Analysis Revisited,” Center for Child and Family Policy Studies, School for Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles.

3. Becerra, Rosina, Alisa Lewin, Michael Mitchell and Hiromi Ono. “California Work Pays Demonstration Project: January 1993 through June 1995 (Interim Report),” Center for Child and Family Policy Studies, School for Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles.

4. Hasenfeld, Yeheskel, Alisa Lewin and Michael Mitchell. “Cal-Learn: San Bernardino Test Cohort October 1994-December 1996,” Center for Child and Family Policy Studies, School for Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles.

5. Stier, Haya and Alisa C Lewin.   “Poverty among Women in Israel” Israel’s Woman’s Network.

6. Lewin, Alisa C. and Haya Stier.   “The Effect of Welfare Transfers on Poverty in Israel: Who Benefits the Most?” Discussion Paper No. 102 Golda Meir Institute for Social and Labour Research, Faculty of social Sciences, Tel Aviv University.

7. Lewin, Alisa C and Eric Maurin. “Do Welfare Transfers Reduce Parents’ Work Efforts? A Reexamination Using New Experimental Data”. CREST Working Paper.

8.  Lewin, Alisa C. and Haya Stier, 2024. "Growing up in Poverty and in Affluence: The Long-term Consequences of Childhood SES on Outcomes in Adulthood."  Final Scientific Report for National Insurance Institute.