AYAL KIMHI Presentations in Professional Meetings 1. The Relevance of the Extent of Farm Work to the Analysis of Off-Farm Labor Supply of Farmers. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, August 4-7, 1991, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.A. 2. Optimal Timing of Transferring the Farm Operation from Father to Son. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Economics Association, August 9-12, 1992, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 3. The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence (Discussion). Presented at the International Seminar on Economic Policy and Income Distribution, May 17-20, 1993, Israel. 4. Minimum Distance Estimation of Simultaneous Ordered Probit Models: A Case Study of Off-Farm Labor Supply of Married Farm Couples. With M-j. Lee. Presented at the European Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, August 22-26, 1993, Uppsala, Sweden. 5. Intergenerational Succession in Family Businesses. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, January 3-5, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 6. Off-Farm Work of Farmers: The Effect of Household Composition. Presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the European Society for Population Economics, June 2-4, 1994, Tilburg, The Netherlands. 7. Differential Human Capital Investments and the Choice of Successor in Family Farms. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, January 6-9, 1995, Washington, DC, U.S.A. 8. Estimation of an Endogenous Switching Regression Model with Discrete Dependent Variables: Monte-Carlo Analysis and Empirical Application of Three Estimators. Presented at the 7th World Congress on the Econometric Society, August 22-29, 1995, Tokyo, Japan. 9. Off-Farm Work Participation of Israeli Farm Couples: the Importance of Farm Work Participation Status. Presented at the International Symposium "Perspectives on Rural Employment", October 11-14, 1995, Coaticook, Quebec, Canada. 10. Farmers' Exit Behavior in Canada and Israel. Presented at the Jerusalem Conference in Canadian Studies, May 12-14, 1996, Jerusalem, Israel. 11. Household Demand for Tobacco: Identifying Reasons for Non-Purchases. Presented at the Tenth Anniversary Meetings of the European Society for Population Economics, 13-15 June 1996, Uppsala, Sweden. 1 12. Off-Farm Work Decisions of Farmers over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Panel Data. Presented at the Sixth Biennial International Conference on Panel Data, 27-28 June 1996, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 13. Retirement Planning and Succession Considerations of Maryland Farmers: Evidence from a Household Survey (with Ramon Lopez). Presented at the Eleventh Annual Meetings of the European Society for Population Economics, 19-21 June 1997, Colchester, UK. 14. Off-Farm Work Decisions of Farmers over the Life Cycle: The Role of Heterogeneity and State Dependence (with Avner Ahituv). Presented at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, 4-6 June 1998, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 15. Capital Accumulation and Work Status Decisions of Farmers: The Role of Heterogeneity and State Dependence (with Avner Ahituv). Presented at the Eighth International Conference on Panel Data, 11-12 June 1998, Goteburg, Sweden. 16. Intergenerational Succession in Israeli Family Farms (with Noga Nachlieli). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, 2-5 August 1998, Salt Lake City, U.S.A. 17. Intra-household Allocation of Food in Southern Ethiopia (with Nathan Sosner). Presented at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, 16-17 October 1998, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A. 18. Barriers for Development in Zambian Agriculture (with Dennis Chiwele). Presented at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, 8-9 October 1999, Harvard University, Boston, U.S.A. 19. Intra-household Allocation of Food in Southern Ethiopia (with Nathan Sosner). Presented at the Conference on Opportunities in Africa, 9-10 April 2000, Oxford University, U.K. 20. Barriers for Development in Zambian Agriculture (with Dennis Chiwele). Presented at the Seminar on Trends and New Directions in Economic Development in Subsaharan Africa, 17-18 May 2000, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. 21. Off-Farm Work Participation of Israeli Farm Women: the Importance of Farm Work Participation Status. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israel Economic Association, 1 June 2000, Jerusalem, Israel. 22. Intergenerational Succession in Israeli Family Farms (with Noga Nachlieli). Presented at the Annual Meetings of the European Society for Population Economics, 15-18 June 2000, Bonn, Germany. 23. Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Bicol Rice Farms (with Robert E. Evenson and Sanjay DeSilva). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, July 31 - 2 August 2000, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. 2 24. Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Bicol Rice Farms (with Robert E. Evenson and Sanjay DeSilva). Presented at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, 6-7 October 2000, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. 25. Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Bicol Rice Farms (with Robert E. Evenson and Sanjay DeSilva). Presented at the 2001 Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, 4-7 January 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. 26. The Effect of Family Composition on the Off-Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm Households (with Eddie Seiler). Presented at the Second Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, 21-25 March 2001, Florence, Italy. 27. Off-Farm Employment and Farm Capital Investments: A Simultaneous Analysis (with Avner Ahituv). Presented at the Seventeenth Annual meeting of the Israel Economic Association, Kibbutz Shefayim, May 3, 2001. 28. Threshold Variation and Multivariate Ordered Discrete Response Models: Identification, Estimation, and Tests (with Myoung-jae Lee). Presented at the Seventeenth Annual meeting of the Israel Economic Association, Kibbutz Shefayim, May 3, 2001. 29. Off-Farm Employment and Farm Capital Investments: Analysis of Israeli Panel Data (with Avner Ahituv). Presented at the Seminar on "Socio-Economic Research Using Panel Data", Tel Aviv University, May 7, 2001. 30. The Effect of Family Composition on the Off-Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm Households (with Eddie Seiler). Presented at the Annual Meetings of the European Society for Population Economics, 14-16 June 2001, Athens, Greece. 31. Wage Formation and Recurrent Unemployment: Discussion. Presented at Econometrics in Tel Aviv 2001 Conference, Tel Aviv University, June 18-24, 2001. 32. Pension Wealth and Intergenerational Transfers in Israeli Family Farms. Presented at the 21st Arne Ryde Symposium on "Non-Human Wealth and Capital Accumulation", Lund University, August 23-25, 2001, Lund, Sweden. 33. Barriers for Development in Zambian Agriculture (with Dennis Chiwele). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, January 3-6, 2002, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. 34. Socio-Economic Determinants of Health and Physical Fitness in Southern Ethiopia. Presented at the First International Conference on "Economics and Human Biology", July 11-14, 2002, Tübingen, Germany. 35. Family Composition and Farmers' Time Allocation. Presented at "The Economics of Water and Agriculture" Workshop, December 18-20, 2002, Rehovot, Israel. 36. Socio-Economic Determinants of Health and Physical Fitness in Southern Ethiopia. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, January 3-5, 2003, Washington, DC, U.S.A. 3 37. Family Composition and Farmers' Time Allocation. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, January 3-5, 2003, Washington, DC, U.S.A. 38. Family Composition and Farmers' Time Allocation. Presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Israel Economic Association, June 3, 2003, Kibbutz Ma'ale Hachamisha, Israel. 39. Farm Work, Off-Farm Work, and Hired Farm Labor: Estimating a Discrete-Choice Model of French Farm Couples’ Labor Decisions (with Catherine Benjamin). Presented at the Annual Meetings of the European Society for Population Economics, 13-15 June 2003, New York, USA. 40. Farm Work, Off-Farm Work, and Hired Farm Labor: Estimating a Discrete-Choice Model of French Farm Couples’ Labor Decisions (with Catherine Benjamin). Presented at the North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, 25-29 June 2003, Evanston, IL, USA. 41. Farm Work, Off-Farm Work, and Hired Farm Labor: Estimating a Discrete-Choice Model of French Farm Couples’ Labor Decisions (with Catherine Benjamin). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, 27-30 July 2003, Montreal, Canada. 42. Time Allocation between Farm and Off-Farm Activities in Israeli Farm Households (with Eliel Rapaport). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, January 3-5, 2004, San Diego, CA, U.S.A. 43. The Role of Agriculture in Rural Well-Being in Israel. Presented at the 78th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economic Society, 2-4 April 2004, London, UK. 44. The Role of Agriculture in Rural Well-Being in Israel. Presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Israel Economic Association, June 7, 2004, Ma'ale Hachamisha, Israel. 45. Gender Differences in Health and Nutrition in Southern Ethiopia. Presented at the "Immigration, Minorities and Social Exclusion" Conference,