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Moshe Hazan

Lecturer of Economics

The Hebrew University of  Jerusalem

 

Current Positions

2003–

Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor)

Department of Economics, Hebrew University

2004 –

Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Research Policy – CEPR

 

Previous Positions

2002–2003

Post–Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, MIT

 

Education

1999–2002

Ph.D. in Economics, Hebrew University

1996–1999

MA in Economics, Summa cum laude, Hebrew University

1993–1996

BA in Economics, Cum laude, Hebrew University

 

Publications

à         "Does Longevity Cause Growth? A Theoretical Critique", Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 11, pp. 363–376, December 2006. (with Hosny Zoabi)

 

à         "Child Labor, Fertility, and Economic Growth", Economic Journal, Vol. 112, pp. 810–828, October 2002. (with Binyamin Berdugo)

 

à         "Women's Labor Force Participation and the Dynamics of Tradition", Economics Letters, Vol. 75(2), pp. 193–198, April 2002. (with Yishay D. Maoz)

 

Other Publications

à         "Longevity and Investment in Human Capital: Lessons from Today's Developed Countries", Vox (www.voxeu.org), September 2008.

 

à         "More Babies for Europe: Lessons from the Post–War Baby Boom" (with Matthias Doepke and Yishay D. Maoz), Vox (www.voxeu.org), September 2008.

 

Completed Papers

à         "The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis", NBER WP 13707. (with Matthias Doepke and Yishay D. Maoz)

 

à         "Longevity and Lifetime Labor Supply: Evidence and Implications". A revised version of "Longevity and Lifetime Labor Input: Data and Implications, CEPR DP 5963."

 

à         "Women's Lifetime Labor Supply and Labor Market Experience". (with Yishay D. Maoz)

 

à         "Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice: Comment"

 

Research in Progress

à         "Sons or Daughters? The Demographic Transition and the Reversal of the Gender Educational Gap". (with Hosny Zoabi)

 

à         "The Effect of Monetary and Time Costs on the Demand for Children: Evidence from the Kibbutz" (with Avi Simhon)

 

Research Grants

2007–8

Maurice Falk Institute, NIS 103,000.

2006–7

Hebrew University Intramural Research Funds, $7,000.

2005–6

Maurice Falk Institute, NIS 53,000 (with Yishay D. Maoz).

2004

Hebrew University Intramural Research Funds, $13,500.

2001–2

Maurice Falk Institute, NIS 7,000 (with Yishay D. Maoz).

1999

Maurice Falk Institute, NIS 7,000 (with Binyamin Berdugo).

 

Conferences

 

Prenestations

à         The 63rd European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM2008), Milan, August 2008

à         The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Economic Association, June 2008

à         Royal Economic Society Conference, University of Warwick, March 2008

à         “European Growth and Integration since the Mid-Nineteenth Century” (CEPR Conference), Lund, October 2006

à         The NBER Summer Institute, Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Meeting, July 2006

à         The NBER Summer Institute, Growth Meeting, July 2006

à         The Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics (SED), Vancouver, July 2006

à         The Minerva - DEGIT XI, Jerusalem, June 2006

à         The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Economic Association, May 2006

à         Summer Workshop of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), Stanford, August 2005

à         The XIX Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Paris, June 2005

à         The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Economic Association, May 2005

à         The Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics (SED), Florence, July 2004

à         Economic Growth and Distribution: on the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Lucca, June 2004

à         The Third Workshop on Demographic-Macroeconomic Modeling, Rostock, September 2002

à         The 57th European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM2002), Venice, August 2002

à         Old and New Growth Theories: An Assessment, Pisa, October 2001

à         VI Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics, Vigo, July 2001

à         DEGIT VI, Vienna, June 2001

Discussions

à         "Rags to Riches", CEPR Conference, Barcelona, December 2008

à         A Conference in Honor of Reuben Gronau's Retirement, Jerusalem, December 2005

à         "From Stagnation to Growth", Rorschach, May 2003

à         Old and New Growth Theories: An Assessment, Pisa, October 2001

 

Organization

à         The Minerva Center Summer School in Economic Growth, Jerusalem, July 2008, Organizer

à         Minerva – DEGIT XI, Jerusalem, June 2006, Member of the Scientific Committee

 

Invited Seminars

2007–8 Hebrew University (Dept. of Agricultural Economics & Management), Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa.

 

2006–7 Bar-Ilan University, Boston University, Brown University, Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), Columbia University, University of Cyprus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Zurich.

 

Previous Years Ben Gurion University, Boston College, Brown University, Hebrew University (Economics & Dept. of Agricultural Economics & Management), University of Haifa, Maastricht University, Tel Aviv University.

 

Referee

American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, European Economic Review, Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Population Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Canadian Journal of Economics, National Science Foundation (NSF), German–Israeli Foundation (GIF).

 

Teaching Experience

2003–

1999–2002

Intermediate Macroeconomics

Hebrew University

2003–2006

Principles of Macroeconomics

Hebrew University

 

Service at Hebrew University

2007–

The D.B. Doran Annual Lecture on Population, Resources, and Development – Member of the Academic Committee

 

2003–

2001–2002

Chair of Intermediate Macroeconomics

2008–

2004–2005

Teaching Committee – Faculty of Social Science