Zvi Eckstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1067929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zvi Eckstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zvi |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckstein |
| SIGNATURE | ECKSTEIN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Newborn Care and Survival among Jews in Early Modern Poland
Child Care and Human Development: Insights from Jewish History in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500–1930
Economists increasingly highlight the role that human capital formation, institutions and cultural transmission may play in shaping health, knowledge and wealth. We study one of the most remarkable instances in which religious norms and childcare practices had a major impact: the history of the Jews in central and eastern Europe from 1500 to 1930. We show that while birth rates were about the same, infant and child mortality among Jews was much l…
The chosen few: How education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? "The Chosen Few" presents a new answer to this question by applying the lens of economic analysis to the…
The Mongol Shock: Can Judaism Survive when Trade and Urban Economies Collapse?
This chapter looks at the Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia, beginning in 1219 and culminating in the razing of Baghdad in 1258. The Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia contributed to the demise of the urban and commercial economy of the Abbasid Empire and brought the economies of Mesopotamia and Persia back to an agrarian and pastoral stage for a long period. As a consequence, a certain proportion of Persian, Mesopotamian, and then…
Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009
A study of the labor market integration of highly skilled Soviet immigrants to Israel that formulates dynamic models of job search and human capital investment. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Soviet Jews emigrated in large numbers to Israel. Over the next ten years, Israel absorbed approximately 900,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union, an influx that equaled about twenty percent of the Israeli population. Most of these ne…
Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities
Before the eighth-ninth centuries CE, most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With the establishment of the Muslim Empire, almost all Jews entered urban occupations despite no restrictions prohibiting them from remaining in agriculture. This occupational selection remained their distinctive mark thereafter. Our thesis is that this transition away from agriculture into crafts and trade was the outcome of their widespread literacy…
Macroeconomic consequences of terror: Theory and the case of Israel
Why Youths Drop out of High School: The Impact of Preferences, Opportunities, and Abilities
In this paper, we structurally estimate a sequential model of high school attendance and work decisions. The estimates imply that youths who drop out of high school have different traits than those who graduate, e.g., they have lower school ability and/or motivation, lower expectations about the rewards from graduation, and a comparative advantage at jobs that are done by non-graduates. We also found that working while in school reduces school pe…
Estimating the Effect of Racial Discrimination on First Job Wage Offers
In this paper we develop and implement a method for bounding the extent to which labor market discrimination can account for racial wage differentials. The method is based on a two-sided, search-matching model that formally accounts for unobserved heterogeneity and unobserved offered wages. We find that racial differences in offered wages are proportionately twice (three times) as large as racial differences in accepted wages for high-school drop…
Transaction Services, Inflation, and Welfare
This paper is motivated by empirical observations on the comovements of currency velocity, inflation, and the relative size of the credit services sector. We document these comovements and incorporate into a monetary growth model a credit services sector that provides services that help people economize on money. Our model makes two new contributions. First, we show that direct evidence on the appropriately defined credit service sector for the U…
Cities and growth: Theory and evidence from France and Japan
The relative populations of the top 40 urban areas of France and Japan remained very constant during these countries' periods of industrialization and urbanization, and are described quite well by the ‘rank-size rule.’ Moreover, projection of their future distributions based on past growth indicates that their size-distributions in steady state will not differ essentially from what they have been historically. Urbanization consequently appears to…
The Dynamics of Inflation with Constant Deficit Under Expected Regime Change
Journal Article The Dynamics of Inflation with Constant Deficit Under Expected Regime Change Get access Benjamin Bental, Benjamin Bental Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Zvi Eckstein Zvi Eckstein Tel-Aviv University and Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 403, 1 December 19…
Household and economy: Welfare economics of endogenous fertility
A Rational Expectations Model of Agricultural Supply
This work suggests a dynamic linear rational expectations modeling strategy for using time-series observations to study the impact of product prices on agricultural production and land allocation. The farmer's decision consists of specifying each period the portion of his land to be devoted to the growing of alternative crops. The dynamic element in the farmer's problem comes from the technology. A quadratic production technology is used. The far…
Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities
Before the eighth-ninth centuries CE, most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With the establishment of the Muslim Empire, almost all Jews entered urban occupations despite no restrictions prohibiting them from remaining in agriculture. This occupational selection remained their distinctive mark thereafter. Our thesis is that this transition away from agriculture into crafts and trade was the outcome of their widespread literacy…
Child Care and Human Development: Insights from Jewish History in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500–1930
Economists increasingly highlight the role that human capital formation, institutions and cultural transmission may play in shaping health, knowledge and wealth. We study one of the most remarkable instances in which religious norms and childcare practices had a major impact: the history of the Jews in central and eastern Europe from 1500 to 1930. We show that while birth rates were about the same, infant and child mortality among Jews was much l…
Transaction Services, Inflation, and Welfare
This paper is motivated by empirical observations on the comovements of currency velocity, inflation, and the relative size of the credit services sector. We document these comovements and incorporate into a monetary growth model a credit services sector that provides services that help people economize on money. Our model makes two new contributions. First, we show that direct evidence on the appropriately defined credit service sector for the U…
A Rational Expectations Model of Agricultural Supply
This work suggests a dynamic linear rational expectations modeling strategy for using time-series observations to study the impact of product prices on agricultural production and land allocation. The farmer's decision consists of specifying each period the portion of his land to be devoted to the growing of alternative crops. The dynamic element in the farmer's problem comes from the technology. A quadratic production technology is used. The far…
A Rational Expectations Model of Agricultural Supply
This work suggests a dynamic linear rational expectations modeling strategy for using time-series observations to study the impact of product prices on agricultural production and land allocation. The farmer's decision consists of specifying each period the portion of his land to be devoted to the growing of alternative crops. The dynamic element in the farmer's problem comes from the technology. A quadratic production technology is used. The far…
Household and economy: Welfare economics of endogenous fertility
The Dynamics of Inflation with Constant Deficit Under Expected Regime Change
Journal Article The Dynamics of Inflation with Constant Deficit Under Expected Regime Change Get access Benjamin Bental, Benjamin Bental Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Zvi Eckstein Zvi Eckstein Tel-Aviv University and Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 403, 1 December 19…
Cities and growth: Theory and evidence from France and Japan
The relative populations of the top 40 urban areas of France and Japan remained very constant during these countries' periods of industrialization and urbanization, and are described quite well by the ‘rank-size rule.’ Moreover, projection of their future distributions based on past growth indicates that their size-distributions in steady state will not differ essentially from what they have been historically. Urbanization consequently appears to…
Transaction Services, Inflation, and Welfare
This paper is motivated by empirical observations on the comovements of currency velocity, inflation, and the relative size of the credit services sector. We document these comovements and incorporate into a monetary growth model a credit services sector that provides services that help people economize on money. Our model makes two new contributions. First, we show that direct evidence on the appropriately defined credit service sector for the U…
Why Youths Drop out of High School: The Impact of Preferences, Opportunities, and Abilities
In this paper, we structurally estimate a sequential model of high school attendance and work decisions. The estimates imply that youths who drop out of high school have different traits than those who graduate, e.g., they have lower school ability and/or motivation, lower expectations about the rewards from graduation, and a comparative advantage at jobs that are done by non-graduates. We also found that working while in school reduces school pe…
Estimating the Effect of Racial Discrimination on First Job Wage Offers
In this paper we develop and implement a method for bounding the extent to which labor market discrimination can account for racial wage differentials. The method is based on a two-sided, search-matching model that formally accounts for unobserved heterogeneity and unobserved offered wages. We find that racial differences in offered wages are proportionately twice (three times) as large as racial differences in accepted wages for high-school drop…
Macroeconomic consequences of terror: Theory and the case of Israel
Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities
Before the eighth-ninth centuries CE, most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With the establishment of the Muslim Empire, almost all Jews entered urban occupations despite no restrictions prohibiting them from remaining in agriculture. This occupational selection remained their distinctive mark thereafter. Our thesis is that this transition away from agriculture into crafts and trade was the outcome of their widespread literacy…
The chosen few: How education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? "The Chosen Few" presents a new answer to this question by applying the lens of economic analysis to the…
The Mongol Shock: Can Judaism Survive when Trade and Urban Economies Collapse?
This chapter looks at the Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia, beginning in 1219 and culminating in the razing of Baghdad in 1258. The Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia contributed to the demise of the urban and commercial economy of the Abbasid Empire and brought the economies of Mesopotamia and Persia back to an agrarian and pastoral stage for a long period. As a consequence, a certain proportion of Persian, Mesopotamian, and then…
Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009
A study of the labor market integration of highly skilled Soviet immigrants to Israel that formulates dynamic models of job search and human capital investment. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Soviet Jews emigrated in large numbers to Israel. Over the next ten years, Israel absorbed approximately 900,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union, an influx that equaled about twenty percent of the Israeli population. Most of these ne…
Child Care and Human Development: Insights from Jewish History in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500–1930
Economists increasingly highlight the role that human capital formation, institutions and cultural transmission may play in shaping health, knowledge and wealth. We study one of the most remarkable instances in which religious norms and childcare practices had a major impact: the history of the Jews in central and eastern Europe from 1500 to 1930. We show that while birth rates were about the same, infant and child mortality among Jews was much l…
Newborn Care and Survival among Jews in Early Modern Poland
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