Ya'akov M. Bayer, Ph.D

Welcome to my website,

I am a behavioral and health economist who earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel). My research spans a diverse range of topics that include: health economics, behavioral economics, decision-making, health policy, cultural economics, the elderly, employment and the labor market, collective memory, popular traditional beliefs, immigration and homecoming, and the Jewish diaspora.

Current positions:

Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Systems Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Be'er-Sheva, Israel.

Senior Lecturer, Health Economics, Achva Academic College. Be'er-Tuvia, Israel.

CFO, Beer-Sheva Mental Health Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Editing Experience: 

I'm an associate editor of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, St. Thomas University, Miami, USA.

Referee Work :  

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Elsevier Inc.), Health policy (Elsevier Inc.), Frontiers in Psychology - section Cultural Psychology, Journal of Health Psychology (Sage Journals), Journal of Trust Research (Taylor & Francis), Israel Affairs (Routledge), Social Indicators Research (Springer), Critical Research on Religion (Sage Journals), Medicine (Wolters Kluwer), Stress and Health (Wiley Online Library), Cogent Arts & Humanities (Taylor and Francis), Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), Applied Economics incorporating Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, (Sage Journals), Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, European Journal of Ageing (Springer), Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (Taylor and Francis), PLoS ONE, Applied Economics Letters (Taylor and Francis), The Royal Society Publishing, the Royal Society Open Science, The Israel national institute for health policy research.

Education: 

Ph.D., Economics, Department of Economics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

M.A. Department of Anthropology and sociology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

M.A. Economics, Department of Economics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

B.A. Economics (with honors), Department of Economics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.