AVRAHAM Y. EBENSTEIN

Avi Ebenstein received his Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Berkeley in 2007. His fields of interest include environmental economics, health economics, and economic demography. Dr. Ebenstein's past research examined the impact of fertility control policy in China on the sex ratio, and investigated policies that might address the "missing girls" phenomenon in Asia. He also explored linkages between declining fertility and increasing female labor supply in Taiwan and the United States in a comparative study. His current research examines the health impacts of environmental deterioration and the design of effective environmental policy, with a focus on developing countries.

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Curriculum Vitae

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Working Papers

Changing the Cost of Children and Fertility: Evidence from the Israeli Kibbutz (with Avi Simhon and Moshe Hazan)

The Impact of Ultrasound Technology on the Status of Women in China (with Hongbin Li and Lingsheng Meng)

Explaining the Chinese Success Story: Industrial Policy, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth, 1990-2007 (with Chanchuan Zhang)

Chemical Fertilizers and Migration (with Kevin Chen, Margaret McMillan, and Jian Zhang)

Understanding the Role of China in the "Decline" of US Manufacturing (with Margaret McMillan, Yaohui Zhao, and Chanchuan Zhang)

Publications

Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys (with Ann Harrison, Margaret McMillan, and Shannon Phillips), forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics

Evidence on the Impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution from China's Huai River Policy (with Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone, and Hongbin Li), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2013. August 6th; 12936-41

China's Marriage Market and Upcoming Challenges for Elderly Men (with Monica Das Gupta and Ethan Sharygin), Population Studies, 2013, 67(1)39:59

The Winners and Losers of Multinational Firm Entry into Developing Countries: Evidence from China's Special Economic Zones, Asian Development Review, 2012, 29(1):29-56

The Consequences of Industrialization: Evidence from Water Pollution and Digestive Cancers in China, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94(1):186-201

Estimating a Dynamic Model of Sex Selection in China, Demography, 2011, 48(2):783-811

Does Inconvenience Explain Low Takeup? Evidence from UI Claiming Procedures (with Kevin Stange), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, 29(1):111-136

The "Missing Girls" of China and the Unintended Consequences of the One Child Policy, Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45(1):87-115

Son Preference and the Missing Market for Social Insurance: Evidence from China's Rural Pension Program (with Steven Leung), Population and Development Review, 2010, 36(1):47-70

When is the Local Average Treatment close to the Average? Evidence from Fertility and Labor Supply, Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4):955-975

The Consequences of the "Missing Girls" of China (with Ethan Jennings), World Bank Economic Review, 2009, 23(3):399-425

Bare Branches, Prostitution, and HIV in China: A Demographic Analysis (with Ethan Jennings), chapter in Gender Policy and HIV in China: Catalyzing Policy Change, Springer Publishing, 2009

Estimating Components of Population Change for Incongruent Spatial/Temporal Units and Attributes (with Dean Hanink and Robert Cromley), December 2009, Journal of Spatial Science 54(2): 89-99

A Spatial Analysis of Selected Manufacturing and Service Sectors in China's Economy using County Employment Data for 1990 and 2000 (with Dean Hanink and Robert Cromley), February 2010, Regional Studies, pp.1-19

Spatial Variation in the Determinants of House Prices and Apartment Rents in China (with Dean Hanink and Robert Cromley), July 2010, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Can Courtroom Sharing Reduce Courthouse Construction Costs? A Preliminary Review (with Mark Musell), Public Budgeting and Finance, 2001, 21(2):106-113

Programs The Consequences of Industrialization: Evidence from Water Pollution and Digestive Cancers in China

Estimating a Dynamic Model of Sex Selection

The "Missing Girls" of China and the Unintended Consequences of the One Child Policy

The Winners and Losers of Multinational Firm Entry into Developing Countries: Evidence from China's Special Economic Zones

When is the Local Close to the Average? Evidence from Fertility and Labor Supply

Son Preference and the Missing Market for Social Insurance: Evidence from China's Rural Pension Program

Does Inconvenience Explain Low Takeup? Evidence from UI Claiming Procedures

Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys

Data

U.S. and International Data Sets

Contact Information Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus Campus, #4208
Jerusalem, Israel 91905
+972-2-588-3254
ebenstein@mscc.huji.ac.il
Other Links University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics