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Ran Abramitzky

Assistant Professor

 Abramitzky

Contact Info:

[email protected]
http://www.stanford.edu/~ranabr/
Page in Stanford Directory

Phone: 650-723-9276

Office: Landau Economics, room 232

Office hours: By email appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Interests

  • Research:

    Economic history, applied microeconomics

  • Current Research:

    The equality-incentives tradeoff and how it shapes and is shaped by institutions; migration and migrant selection; international knowledge flows; assortative matching in marriage markets

  • Teaching:

    Economic history, applied microeconomics

  • Professional Affiliations:

    AEA, Economic History Association, Cliometric Society

Recent Publications

(1) “Europe’s Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration,” with Leah Boustan and Katherine Eriksson, revise and resubmit, American Economic Review

(2) “Marrying Up: the Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching,” with Adeline Delavande and Luis Vasconcelos, revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

(3) “Risk, Incentives and Contracts: Partnerships in Rio De Janeiro, 1870-1891,” (with Zephyr Frank and Aprajit Mahajan), Journal of Economic History forthcoming 2010

(4) “Lessons from the Kibbutz on the Equality-Incentives Trade-Off,” Journal of Economic Perspectives forthcoming 2010

(5) “The Effect of Redistribution on Migration: Evidence from the Israeli kibbutz,” Journal of Public Economics, 93, 498-511, 2009

(6) “The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming, 123:3, 1111-1159, 2008

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Education

Ph.D., M.A. Northwestern University; B.A. Hebrew University