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...

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...