Research

• “The Influence of Family Structure on Residential and Work Location of Immigrants in Israel” Labour Economics, 2023, Vol. 81. (with Moshe Buchinsky and Chemi Gotlivovsky) 

• "Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply” Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021. Pages 1-41. (with Rania Gihleb) 

• “Career and Family Decisions: Cohorts born 1935 – 1975”, Econometrica, 2019, Vol. 87, Issue.1, 217-253 (with Zvi Eckstein and Michael Keane) 

• "Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women", International Economic Review, 2015, Vol 56, 2, 427-455 (with Zvi Eckstein)

• “Dynamic Female Labor Supply”, Econometrica, 2011, Vol.79 No.6, 1675-1726 (with Zvi Eckstein)

• “Residential Location, Work Location, and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants In Israel”, Econometrica, 2014, Vol. 82, No. 3, 995–1054. (with Moshe Buchinsky and Chemi Gotlivovsky) 

• “Households' Labor Supply Elasticity”, Israel Economic Review, 2005, Vol. 3. 87-119

• “Elasticity of Household Labor Supply”, Bank of Israel Review, 2004, Vol 76 (Hebrew).

Chapters in books

• “The Israeli Labor Market, 1995-2015” (with Zvi Eckstein and Tali Larom) , in  lights and shadows – the Israel Economy 1995-2015, Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel. Am oved Publishers. Editors: R. Gronau, A. Zussman and A. Ben-Bassat, 2021, Pages: 526-574 (Hebrew version)

• “The Israeli Labor Market, 1995-2015” (with Zvi Eckstein and Tali Larom) , in  lights and shadows – the Israel Economy 1995-2015, Cambridge University Press. Editors: R. Gronau, A. Zussman and A. Ben-Bassat, 2021, Pages: 397-432 (English version).

• “The labor market in Israel, 2000–2016”  (with Tali Larom) in Country Labor Markets, IZA World of Labor. Editor: Daniel S. Hamermesh, 2018

Under Revision

• Lifshitz, O and M.Tehawkho, “Arab Women’s Language Barrier” (under revision for Israel Economic review).

Work in Progress

• “The US Education Dynamics – the Reversal of the Education Gender Gap” (with Zvi Eckstein and  Michael Keane)

•  “The Effect of the US Welfare Reform on Couple Interaction and Labor Market Outcomes” (with S.Lichtman-Sadot)

•  “Child Care Affordability and Accessibility and Household’s Decisions” (with Gihleb, R)

•   “Father Contribution to Human Capital” (with Feldman, R., Kanat-Maymon, Y)

•  “Labor Force Resilience to Negative Income Shock” With the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis and The Aaron Institute for economic policy.