I’m an Economist and Statistician, a PHD Student in Economics at the Hebrew University.
I mostly do empirical work, my primary research interests are Political Economics, Public Economics, Health and Demographics, Data Science, Economics of Israel and Economic History.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Work in Progress

Other Publications

Additional Activities

I’m the creator and maintainer of the World Mortality Dataset, an open dataset that tracks all-cause-mortality data from around the world.

I’m a member of the World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment.

I’m a member of The Israeli Economic History Association and Midaat, an NGO dedicated to promoting public health via evidence based medicine and practices.

Check out the blog Gal Kabiri and I write together: The Artist & the Merchant, where we discuss economics, statistics and other aspects of social sciences with illustrations. (Hebrew)

Check out the podcast I host my with my collegues Itay Cishnevsky and Ori Katz : Creative Destruction, where we have talks with leading economists and other social scientists in Israel. (Hebrew)

Acknowledgments

The following is a list of peer-reviewed articles, books and media where I’m formally acknowledged for helping. Though not my own, they are an important part of my contributions and I’m happy to assist colleagues in my areas of expertise.

Reviewer

List (in alphabetical order) of journals that I have peer-reviewed manuscripts for:

Economic Quarterly, European Journal of Epidemiology, Health Security, International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Nature Medicine, PLOS-ONE, PNAS, Preventive Medicine Reports, Science Advances, Scientific Reports.