We compare the link between parents’ schooling and their children’s college-entrance test scores in Israeli kibbutzim (communal villages) and in the general population. Though kibbutzim are committed to an egalitarian ethos and provide all kibbutz children with similar need-based access to...

A natural experiment in education on Israeli kibbutzim, where investment in human capital is equal for all children, allows us to differentiate between the effect on children's grades of genetics and home environment on the one hand and of material resources invested in education on the other...

Israel offers contingent subsidies to selected industrial R&D projects, with the purpose of creating high-quality jobs, reducing the trade deficit, increasing productivity and promoting growth. In 1987-94, 1,200 firms received $1,400 million of subsidies in support of $3,500 million of R&D (in...

This study describes the socioeconomic dynamics of Israel's one hundred largest local authorities between 1983 and 1995, and identifies factors that affected their relative levels of socioeconomic well-being in this period. A direct comparison of their rankings in these two years highlights the...