I have earned my Ph.D. degree from Tel-Aviv University in 1998 and I am currently serving as a full professor (with tenure) in Ben-Gurion University in Israel. I served as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of California San-Diego, the University of California Irvine, the University of California Berkeley and as a visiting scholar at CES, Munich, and at IFAU, Uppsala. 

My main line of research focuses on the normative issue of the optimal design of the tax and transfer (welfare) system. Other fields of interest include law and economics, labor economics and behavioral public economics. In my research I address highly relevant policy issues that lie at the core of public discourse, including, inter-alia: the use of racial profiling for law enforcement, the effect of individuals’ misperception of taxes on labor supply decisions, the role of labor migration in shaping the design of optimal tax and transfer systems in the backdrop of tax competition, the effect of adverse selection in the labor market on policy design with special focus on mandatory parental leave rules and gender wage gaps and the role of wage secrecy arrangements in labor contracts. 

I teach both undergraduate and graduate level courses in public economics and microeconomics.