Curriculum Vitae

Ayal Kimhi CV Updated: April 6, 2021

Department of Environmental Economics and Management The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL; E-mail: [email protected] Home Page: http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/economics/kimhi.html

Date of Birth: April 29, 1959; Family Status: Married + 4; Residence: Kfar-Varburg 70998.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION 1991 Ph.D., Department of Economics, The University of Chicago. Thesis: "Occupational Choice in Israeli Cooperative Villages." Committee: Y. Mundlak, G. Becker, K. Murphy. 1990 M.A., Department of Economics, The University of Chicago. 1986 M.Sc. (summa cum laude), Department of Agricultural Economics, Hebrew University. Thesis: Agricultural Credit in Israel.” Advisor: Yoav Kislev. 1984 B.Sc. (magna cum laude), Department of Agricultural Economics, Hebrew University.

POSITIONS AT HEBREW UNIVERSITY 2011: Sir Henry d'Avigdor Goldsmid Chair of Agricultural Economics. 2004: Associate Professor. 1997: Senior Lecturer. 1994: Lecturer.

CONCURRENT/PAST POSITIONS Since 2015: Vice President, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research. 2009-15 Deputy Director, Head of Research, and Chair, Labor Market Policy Program, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel. 2008-15 Director of Research, Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel. 2008-12 Academic Coordinator, Program of Economics and Business Enrichment Studies, Weizmann Institute of Science. 2002-05 Director of Research, Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel. 1996-97 Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Economics, Tel-Aviv University. 1995-03 Consultant, The World Bank (various projects in various countries). 1992-94 Teaching and Research Associate, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University, and Center for Agricultural Economic Research.

VISITING POSITIONS 2020 Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Granada. 2019 Visiting Fellow, Paris School of Economics. 2019 Visiting Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University. 2018 Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2013 Visiting Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Sydney. 2012 Visiting Research Fellow, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto. 2011 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, University of Leuven. 2006 Visiting Professor, School of Economics, Nagoya University. 2005-06 Visiting Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania. 1998-99 Visiting Assistant Professor, Economic Growth Center, Yale University.

1 1990-92 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Maryland at College Park (also summer 1993).

FIELDS OF INTEREST Economics of the Family; Economic Development; Labor Economics; Agricultural Economics.

RESEARCH TOPICS Intergenerational Transfers and Farm Succession; Farmers’ Time Allocation, Exit and Retirement Decisions; Structural Changes in the Farm Sector; Agricultural Policy; Agricultural Development in Developing Countries; Inequality Decompositions; Aging, Pensions and Retirement.

COURSES TAUGHT Economics of Growth and Development (graduate, 2001-2003, 2005, 2007-2008); Economics of Developing Countries (1999); Topics in Development (2006); Introduction to Probability and Statistics (1998); Econometrics A (graduate, 2012, 2015); Econometrics B (graduate, 1998, 2000, 2002-2003, 2005, 2007-2018, 2020-2021); Economics of Family and Gender (2005); Introduction to the Economics of the Rural Family (2008-202 0 ); Economics of the Rural Family (graduate, 1994-1998, 2000-2002); Introductory Econometrics (1996-1997, 2009, 2014); Price Theory A (1993-1998, 2000); Consumer Theory (2009, 2013); Producer Theory (2007, 2017, 2021); Introductory Microeconomics (1999-2002); Introductory Macroeconomics (1993, 1995- 1997, 2004-2005, 2018, 2020); Graduate seminars (various years).

HONORS 2019 Keren Kibbutz Award Haifa University 2015 Publication of Enduring Quality Canadian Agric. Econ. Society 2007 Third Place Poster Presentation American Agric. Econ. Association 1995-96 Golda Meir Fellowship Hebrew University 1992-94 Post-Doc Fellowship Hebrew University 1992-93 Sally Berg Fellowship Hebrew University 1986-90 Century Fellowship University of Chicago 1986 Fulbright Fellowship Institute of International Education 1985 Ya'acov Gal Fellowship Hebrew University 1984 Rector list Hebrew University 1983 Rector list Hebrew University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editor-in-Chief Journal of Rural Cooperation, 2006-2009

Co-Editor Journal of Rural Cooperation, 2010-2015

Editorial Advisory Board Member The Open Economics Journal, 2008-2014 Agricultural Economics, 2004-2006

Association Membership Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2 European Association of Agricultural Economists International Association of Agricultural Economists Israel Economic Association The Econometric Society Entrepreneurship Research Society (Founding Scholar)

Journal Reviewer (selected journals) American Economic Review; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy; Economic Development and Cultural Change; European Review of Agricultural Economics; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Economic Inequality; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Population Economics; Review of Economic Studies; Review of Economics of the Household; World Development.

Organizer  The Economics of Water and Agricultural, An International Workshop in Honor of Professor Yoav Kislev, December 18-20, 2002, Rehovot, Israel.  Privatization, Liberalization, and the Emergence of Private Farms in Former Soviet Countries: An International Workshop, June 20-22, 2005, Tbilisi, Georgia.  Rural Cooperation in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Past, Pathways to the Future, an International Workshop, June 15-17, 2009, Rehovot, Israel.  Emerging Issues in Agricultural Economics - Farms and Farming People: Structure and Connections to Food Security and Rural Communities, an International Workshop, May 29- June 2, 2011, Rehovot, Israel.  India's Agriculture Facing Future Challenges, an International Conference, September 6- 8, 2011, Mumbai, India.  Israeli Society: Current Trends and Future Prospects, April 15, 2012, New York, NY, U.S.A.  Agricultural Transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former USSR after 20 Years: An International Workshop in honor of Professor Zvi Lerman, March 20-22, 2013, Rehovot, Israel.  The Batsheva de Rothschild Workshop on Climate Changes and their Effect on Agriculture, Economics and the Environment, June 20-21, 2016, Ein Tzurim, Israel.  The 2nd Mundlak Memorial Workshop on Agriculture and Economic Development, May 25-26, 2017, Rehovot, Israel.  Seminar on Aging, Retirement and Pensions: Trends, Challenges and Policy, March 27- 29, 2018, Ashkelon, Israel.  CEPR conference on Growth and Inequality: Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Policies, May 16-17, 2018, Tel-Aviv, Israel.  The 3rd Mundlak Memorial Workshop on Agriculture and Economic Development, May 21-22, 2018, Rehovot, Israel.  Workshop on Pension Reforms and Behavioral Perspectives on Pensions, November 30 – December 1, 2018, Berlin, Germany.  The 4th Mundlak Memorial Workshop on Agriculture and Economic Development, June 24-25, 2019, Rehovot, Israel.  Workshop on Gender Differences in the Labor Market, December 12, 2019, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

3 BOOKS EDITED

1. Gogodze, Joseph, and Ayal Kimhi, eds. Privatization, Liberalization, and the Emergence of Private Farms in Georgia and Other Former Soviet Countries, Tbilisi, Georgia: Color Publishing House, 2005.

2. Kimhi, Ayal, and Israel Finkelshtain, eds. The Economics of Natural and Human Resources in Agriculture, New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2009.

3. Kimhi, Ayal, and Zvi Lerman, eds. Agricultural Transition in Post-Soviet Europe and Central Asia after 25 Years: International Workshop in Honor of Professor Zvi Lerman, Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies Vol. 79, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, 2015.

CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS

1. Kimhi, Ayal. "Agricultural Credit in Israel: 1950-1984." In Kislev, Yoav (ed.), Technology, Cooperation, Growth and Policy: Studies in Agricultural Economics. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, pp. 159-172, 1990 (Hebrew).

2. Gogodze, Joseph, Iddo Kan and Ayal Kimhi. “Development of Individual Farming in Georgia: Descriptive Analysis and Comparisons.” In Joseph Gogodze and Ayal Kimhi (eds.), Privatization, Liberalization, and the Emergence of Private Farms in Georgia and Other Former Soviet Countries. Tbilisi, Georgia: Color Publishing House, pp. 9-38, 2005.

3. Kan, Iddo, and Ayal Kimhi. “Land Reform, Cropland Allocation Decisions, and Crop Yields in Georgia.” In Joseph Gogodze and Ayal Kimhi (eds.), Privatization, Liberalization, and the Emergence of Private Farms in Georgia and Other Former Soviet Countries. Tbilisi, Georgia: Color Publishing House, pp. 39-79, 2005.

4. Hoyman, Ofir, and Ayal Kimhi. “Off-Farm Labor Supply in Rural Georgia.” In Joseph Gogodze and Ayal Kimhi (eds.), Privatization, Liberalization, and the Emergence of Private Farms in Georgia and Other Former Soviet Countries. Tbilisi, Georgia: Color Publishing House, pp. 80-96, 2005.

5. Kimhi, Ayal. “Gender Differences in Health and Nutrition in Southern Ethiopia.” In Premananda Bharati and Manoranjan Pal (eds.), Gender Disparity: Manifestations, Causes and Implications, New Delhi: India, Amnol Publications, pp. 198-213, 2006.

6. Kimhi, Ayal, and Hila Rekah. “The Simultaneous Evolution of Farm Size and Specialization: Dynamic Panel Data Evidence from Israeli Farm Communities.” In Stefan Mann (ed.), Causes and Impacts of Agricultural Structures, New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 43-58, 2006.

7. Kimhi, Ayal. "Pension Wealth and Intergenerational Transfers in Family Businesses." In Guillermo Perez-Bustamante and Fernando Ferreira (eds.), Proceedings of the IASK International Conference Global Management 2008, Porto, Portugal: IASK, pp. 147-154, 2008.

8. Kimhi, Ayal, and Israel Finkelshtain. “Introduction to the Economics of Natural and Human Resources in Agriculture.” In Ayal Kimhi and Israel Finkelshtain (eds.), The

4 Economics of Natural and Human Resources in Agriculture, New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 1-4, 2009.

9. Kimhi, Ayal, and Dennis Chiwele. “Land Allocation and Maize Productivity in Zambian Small- and Medium-Size Farms: Evidence from Micro-Data.” In Ayal Kimhi and Israel Finkelshtain (eds.), The Economics of Natural and Human Resources in Agriculture, New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 117-132, 2009.

10. Kimhi, Ayal, and Edward Seiler. “The Effect of Family Composition on the Off-Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm Households.” In Ayal Kimhi and Israel Finkelshtain (eds.), The Economics of Natural and Human Resources in Agriculture, New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 267-287, 2009.

11. Kimhi, Ayal. "Income Inequality in Israel." In Dan Ben-David (ed.), State of the Nation Report: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, 2010, Jerusalem, Israel: Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, pp. 113-151, 2011.

12. Kimhi, Ayal. "Labor Market Trends: Employment Rate and Wage Disparities." In Dan Ben-David (ed.), State of the Nation Report: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, 2011- 2012, Jerusalem, Israel: Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, pp. 123-160, 2012.

13. Kimhi, Ayal, and Kyrill Shraberman. "Employment and Income Trends among Older Israelis." In Dan Ben-David (ed.), State of the Nation Report: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, 2013, Jerusalem, Israel: Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, pp. 163-200, 2013.

14. Kimhi, Ayal, and Kyrill Shraberman. "Labor Income Inequality Trends in Israel." In Dan Ben-David (ed.), State of the Nation Report: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, 2014, Jerusalem, Israel: Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, pp. 225-262, 2014.

15. Kimhi, Ayal. “Foreword.” In Ayal Kimhi and Zvi Lerman (eds.), Agricultural Transition in Post-Soviet Europe and Central Asia after 25 Years: International Workshop in honor of Professor Zvi Lerman, Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies No. 79, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, pp. iii-vii, 2015.

16. Kimhi, Ayal. “Land Reform and its Distributional Implications: The Case of Georgia.” In Ayal Kimhi and Zvi Lerman (eds.), Agricultural Transition in Post-Soviet Europe and Central Asia after 25 Years: International Workshop in honor of Professor Zvi Lerman, Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies No. 79, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, pp. 175-191, 2015.

17. Kimhi, Ayal, and Kyrill Shraberman. "The Increase in the Number of Earners and its Impact on Household Income." In Avi Weiss and Dov Chernichovsky (eds.), State of the Nation Report: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, 2015, Jerusalem, Israel: Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, pp. 505-534, 2015.

18. Kimhi, Ayal, and Moran Sandel. "Religious Schooling, Secular Schooling, and Household Income Inequality in Israel." In Nabil Khattab, Sami Miaari and Haya Stier (eds.), Socioeconomic Inequality in Israel: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59-72, 2016.

5 19. Heizler, Odelia, and Ayal Kimhi. "The Role of Children in Building Parents' Social Networks." In Joan Costa-Font and Mario Macis (eds.), Social Economics: Current and Emerging Issues, MIT Press, pp. 283-304, 2017.

20. Ben David, Dan, and Ayal Kimhi. "Economics of Education in Israel: Inputs, Outputs and Performance." In Avi Ben Bassat, Reuven Gronau and Assaf Zussman (eds.), The Israeli Economy: 1995-2017, Cambridge University Press, pp. 433-463, 2021.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Kimhi, Ayal. "The Application and Economic Interpretation of Selectivity Models: Comment." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74 (2), May 1992, 498-499.

2. Kimhi, Ayal. "Participation of Farm Owners in Farm and/or Off-Farm Work Including the Option of Full-Time Off-Farm Work." Journal of Agricultural Economics 45 (2), May 1994, 232- 239.

3. Kimhi, Ayal. "Optimal Timing of Farm Transferal from Parent to Child." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 76 (2), May 1994, 228-236.

4. Kimhi, Ayal. "Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Probit Models: Farm Couples' Labor Participation." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 76 (4), November 1994, 828-835.

5. Kimhi, Ayal. "Differential Human Capital Investments and the Choice of Successor in Family Farms." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77 (3), August 1995, 719-724.

6. Kimhi, Ayal. "Farmers' Time Allocation between Farm Work and Off-farm Work and the Importance of Unobserved Group Effects: Evidence from Israeli Cooperatives." Agricultural Economics 14 (2), July 1996, 135-142.

7. Kimhi, Ayal. "Demographic Composition of Farm Households and its Effect on Time Allocation." Journal of Population Economics 9 (4), November 1996, 429-439.

8. Kimhi, Ayal, and Myoung-jae Lee. "Off-Farm Work Decisions of Farm Couples: Estimating Structural Simultaneous Equations With Ordered Categorical Dependent Variables." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78 (3), August 1996, 687-698.

9. Kimhi, Ayal. “Off-Farm Work Participation of Israeli Farm Couples: The Importance of Farm Work Participation Status.” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 44 (4), December 1996, 481-490.

10. Kimhi, Ayal. "Intergenerational Succession in Small Family Businesses: Borrowing Constraints and Optimal Timing of Succession." Small Business Economics 9 (4), August 1997, 309-18.

11. Kimhi, Ayal. “Institutional Environment, Ideological Commitment, and Farmers' Time Allocation: the Case of Israeli Moshavim.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 47 (1), October 1998, 27-44.

6 12. Kimhi, Ayal, and Ramon Lopez. “A Note on Farmers’ Retirement and Succession Considerations: Evidence from a Household Survey.” Journal of Agricultural Economics 50 (1), January 1999, 154-162.

13. Kimhi, Ayal. “On the Tradeoff between Computational Simplicity and Asymptotic Properties in Multivariate Probit.” Computational Economics 13 (1), February 1999, 93-101.

14. Pesquin, Claudio, Ayal Kimhi, and Yoav Kislev. “Old Age Security and Inter-generational Transfer of Family Farms.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 26 (1), 1st Quarter 1999, 19-37.

15. Kimhi, Ayal. “Estimation of an Endogenous Switching Regression Model with Discrete Dependent Variables: Monte-Carlo Analysis and Empirical Application of Three Estimators.” Empirical Economics 24 (2), May 1999, 225-241.

16. Kimhi, Ayal, and Ray Bollman. “Family Farm Dynamics in Canada and Israel: The Case of Farm Exits.” Agricultural Economics 21 (1), August 1999, 69-79.

17. Kimhi, Ayal. “Double Hurdle and Purchase Infrequency Demand Analysis: A Feasible Integrated Approach.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 26 (4), 4th Quarter 1999, 425- 442.

18. Kimhi, Ayal. “Is Part-Time Farming Really a Step in the Way Out of Agriculture?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82 (1), February 2000, 38-48.

19. Kimhi, Ayal, and Noga Nachlieli. “Intergenerational Succession in Israeli Family Farms.” Journal of Agricultural Economics 52 (2), May 2001, 42-58.

20. Ahituv, Avner, and Ayal Kimhi. “Off-Farm Work and Capital Accumulation Decisions of Farmers over the Life-Cycle: The Role of Heterogeneity and State Dependence.” Journal of Development Economics 68 (2), August 2002, 329-353.

21. Kimhi, Ayal. "Socio-Economic Determinants of Health and Physical Fitness in Southern Ethiopia." Economics and Human Biology 1 (1), January 2003, 55-75.

22. Ahituv, Avner, and Ayal Kimhi. “Off-Farm Work and Capital Accumulation Decisions of Moshav Members Over the Life-Cycle.” The Economic Quarterly 50 (1), March 2003, 105- 128 (Hebrew).

23. Kimhi, Ayal. “Family Composition and Off-Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm Households.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86 (2), May 2004, 502-512.

24. Kimhi, Ayal, and Eliel Rapaport. "Time Allocation between Farm and Off-Farm Activities in Israeli Farm Households." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86 (3), August 2004, 716-721.

25. Ben-David, Dan, and Ayal Kimhi. “Trade and the Rate of Income Convergence.” Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 13 (4), December 2004, 419-441.

7 26. Lee, Myoung-jae, and Ayal Kimhi. “Simultaneous Equations in Ordered Discrete Responses with Regressor-Dependent Thresholds.” The Econometrics Journal 8 (2), July 2005, 176-196.

27. Ahituv, Avner, and Ayal Kimhi. “Simultaneous Estimation of Work Choices and the Level of Farm Activity Using Panel Data.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 33 (1), March 2006, 49-71.

28. Kimhi, Ayal. “The International Workshop on Privatization, Liberalization and the Emergence of Private Farms in Former Soviet Countries.” Central Eurasian Studies Review 5 (1), Winter 2006, 60-62.

29. Benjamin, Catherine, and Ayal Kimhi. “Farm Work, Off-Farm Work, and Hired Farm Labor: Estimating a Discrete-Choice Model of French Farm Couples’ Labor Decisions.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 33 (2), June 2006, 149-171.

30. Kimhi, Ayal. “Plot Size and Maize Productivity in Zambia: Is There an Inverse Relationship?” Agricultural Economics 35 (1), July 2006, 1-9 (Lead Article).

31. DeSilva, Sanjaya, Robert E. Evenson, and Ayal Kimhi. “Labor Supervision and Institutional Conditions: Evidence from Bicol Rice Farms.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88 (4), November 2006, 851-865.

32. Kan, Iddo, Ayal Kimhi, and Zvi Lerman. “Farm Output, Non-Farm Income, and Commercialization in Rural Georgia.” The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics 3 (2), 2006, 276-286.

33. Gogodze, Joseph, Iddo Kan, and Ayal Kimhi. “Land Reform and Rural Well Being in Georgia: 1996-2003.” Projections 7, Spring 2008, 26-41.

34. Kimhi, Ayal. “Heterogeneity, Specialization and Social Cohesion in Israeli Moshav Cooperatives.” Journal of Rural Cooperation 37 (1), Spring 2009, 124-136.

35. Kimhi, Ayal. “Pension Wealth and Intergenerational Succession in Family Businesses.” Portuguese Journal of Management Studies 14 (2), 2009, 177-190.

36. Kimhi, Ayal. "Demand for On-Farm Permanent Hired Labour in Family Holdings: A Comment." European Review of Agricultural Economics 36 (3), 2009, 447-452.

37. Kimhi, Ayal. "Male Income, Female Income, and Household Income Inequality in Israel: A Decomposition Analysis." Journal of Income Distribution 18 (3-4), 2009, 34-48.

38. Kimhi, Ayal. "Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in Southern Ethiopia." Small Business Economics 34 (1), 2010, 81-91.

39. Dolev, Yuval, and Ayal Kimhi. "Do Family Farms Really Converge to a Uniform Size? The Role of Unobserved Farm Efficiency." Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 54 (1), 2010, 119-136.

8 40. Kimhi, Ayal. "Jewish Households, Arab Households, and Income Inequality in Rural Israel: Ramifications for the Israeli-Arab Conflict." Defense and Peace Economics 21 (4), 2010, 381-394.

41. Kimhi, Ayal. "Revitalizing and Modernizing Smallholder Agriculture for Food Security, Rural Development and Demobilization in a Post-War Country: The Case of the Aldeia Nova Project in Angola." Development Southern Africa 27 (3), September 2010, 381-395.

42. Kimhi, Ayal. "The Role of Agriculture in Rural Well-Being: The Case of Israel." New Medit 10 (2), 2011, 33-41.

43. Kimhi, Ayal. "Comment: On the Interpretation (and Misinterpretation) of Inequality Decompositions by Income Sources." World Development 39 (10), October 2011, 1888-1890.

44. Heizler, Odelia, and Ayal Kimhi. "Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows." Journal of Socio-Economics 41 (1), January 2012, 18-25.

45. Kan, Iddo, Yoav Motro, Nir Horvitz, Ayal Kimhi, Yossi Leshem, Yoram Yom-Tov and Ran Nathan. “Agricultural Rodent Control Using Barn Owls: Is it Profitable?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96 (3), April 2014, 733-752.

46. Kimhi, Ayal, and Sarit Menahem-Carmi. "Does Rural Household Income Depend on Neighboring Urban Centers? Evidence from Israel." Review of Applied Socioeconomic Research 13 (1), 2017, 26-35.

47. Kimhi, Ayal, and Nirit Hanuka-Taflia. "What Drives the Convergence in Male and Female Wage Distributions in Israel? A Shapley Decomposition Approach." Journal of Economic Inequality 17 (3), 2019, 379-399.

48. Reitan, Ayelet, Ofir D. Rubin, Aviad Rubin, and Ayal Kimhi. "Privatization, Demographic Growth and Perceived Sustainability: Lessons from the Israeli Renewing Kibbutzim." Sustainable Development 27 (6), 2019, 1076-1084.

49. Becker, Nir, Ayal Kimhi, and Eli Argaman. "Costs and Benefits of Waste Soils Removal." Land Use Policy 99 (forthcoming December 2020).

50. Kimhi, Ayal. “International Remittances, Domestic Remittances, and Income Inequality in the Dominican Republic.” Research in Applied Economics 12 (3), 2020, 1-18.

UMPUBLISHED DISCUSSION PAPERS

Kimhi, Ayal, and Ofir D. Rubin. Assessing the Response of Farm Households to Dairy Policy Reform in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 15.06, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, December 2006. Also Working Paper #07012, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, June 2007.

9 Kimhi, Ayal. Does Land Reform in Transition Countries Increase Child Labor? Evidence from the Republic of Georgia. Discussion Paper No. 04.07, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, February 2007.

Goodwin, Barry K., Ashok K. Mishra, and Ayal Kimhi. Household Time Allocation and Endogenous Farm Structure: Implications for the Design of Agricultural Policies. Discussion Paper No. 11.07, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, July 2007.

Kimhi, Ayal. Regression-Based Inequality Decomposition: A Critical Review and Application to Farm-Household Income Data. Discussion Paper No. 16.07, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, November 2007.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Hila Rekah. Are Changes in Farm Size and Labor Allocation Structurally Related? Dynamic Panel Evidence from Israel. Discussion Paper No. 17.07, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, December 2007.

Kimhi, Ayal. Has Debt Restructuring Facilitated Structural Transformation on Israeli Family Farms? Discussion Paper No. 05.08, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, April 2008. (Earlier version appeared as Working Paper 1-06, The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 2006).

Arayama, Yuko, Jong Moo Kim and Ayal Kimhi. Identifying Determinants of Income Inequality in the Presence of Multiple Income Sources: The Case of Korean Farm Households. Discussion Paper No. 06.09, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, July 2009.

Kimhi, Ayal. Land Reform and Farm-Household Income Inequality: The Case of Georgia. Discussion Paper No. 10.09, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, September 2009.

Kimhi, Ayal. International Remittances, Domestic Remittances, and Income Inequality in the Dominican Republic. Discussion Paper No. 2.10, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, February 2010.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Nitzan Tzur. Long-Run Trends in the Farm Size Distribution in Israel: The Role of Part-Time Farming. Discussion Paper No. 1.11, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, January 2011.

Kimhi, Ayal. Pre-Primary Education in Israel: Organizational and Demographic Aspects. Policy Paper No. 2012.01, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, March 2012.

Heizler, Odelia, Nira Yacouel, and Ayal Kimhi. Sociability and the Timing of First Marriage. IZA Discussion Paper No. 6607, May 2012.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Michal Shafir-Tidhar. Income Inequality between and within Population Groups in Israel: 1997-2010. Research Paper No. 12-02, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, September 2012.

Fishman, Ezra, and Ayal Kimhi. Is the Israeli Labor Market Segmented? Research Paper No. 13-01, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, August 2013.

10 Kimhi, Ayal. Are Migrant Agricultural Workers Replacing the Local Workforce? Discussion Paper No. 10.14, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2014.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Arik Horowitz. The Importance of the Level of High School Math Studies to the Academic Studies and Future Careers of Israeli Students. Policy Paper No. 2015.01, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, April 2015.

Lewin-Epstein, Noah, Ortal Siminovich, and Ayal Kimhi. Public Opinion towards Agriculture and Rural Areas in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 6.16, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2016.

Ben-David, Dan, and Ayal Kimhi. An Overview of Israel’s Education System and its Impact. Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, December 2017.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Maya Sender. Does Consumption Decrease After Retirement, and for Whom? Discussion Paper No. 18.01, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2018.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Ami Reznik. Efficiency Implications of the Dairy Farm Policy Reform in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 18.03, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2018.

Menahem-Carmi, Sarit, and Ayal Kimhi. A Primer on Israel’s Pension System: Where it is Today and Suggestions for the Future. Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, June 2018.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Ortal Siminovich. Who Exits from a Reforming Sector? The Case of Dairy Farmers in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 18.05, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2018.

Kan, Iddo, Ami Reznik, Ayal Kimhi, and Jonathan Kaminski. The Impacts of Climate Change on Cropland Allocation, Crop Production, Output Prices and Social Welfare in Israel: A Structural Econometric Framework. Discussion Paper No. 18.06, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2018.

Kimhi, Ayal, and Nirit Hanuka-Taflia. Do Foreign Workers Affect Local Wages: Evidence from Israeli Agriculture. Discussion Paper No. 1.20, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2020.

Kimhi, Ayal. Socioeconomic Aspects of Coronavirus Infection Rates Across Israeli Municipalities. Policy Brief, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, May 2020.

Rittberg, Yuval, and Ayal Kimhi. Does the Cost of Foreign Workers Affect the Wages of Local Agricultural Workers? Evidence from Israel. Discussion Paper No. 3.20, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2020.

Ben-David, Dan, and Ayal Kimhi. Education Quality and Future Wages: The Impact of Math Matriculation Quality in the Periphery and Center of Israel, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, August 2020.

11 Kimhi, Ayal. Education, Migration, Employment and Wages of Young People Who Grew Up in Moshavim. Discussion Paper No. 4.21, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, March 2021.