Collected Works - Articles and Chapters
Collected Works - Articles and Chapters (English): by major topic
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◼ Early Work: Mathematical Programming
◼ Agricultural Research, Extension, and Technological Innovation
◼ Family Farms, Farm Size and Economies of Scale
◼ Water
◼ Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
◼ Israel Agriculture
◼ Labor Economics
◼ Political Economy
◼ Transition Economies
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Early Work: Mathematical Programming
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"Linear and Dynamic Programming in Markov Chains," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 50:111-29, Feb. 1968 (With Amotz Amiad)
"A Programming Model for Optimal Patterns of Investment, Production, and Consumption Over Time," Israel Journal of Technology, 6:333-640, 1968. (With Yakir Plessner)
"An Economic Analysis of Drainage Projects," Proceedings of the Third Annual Israel conference on Operations Research, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York, 1971. (With Hanna Lifson)
"An Applicable Linear Programming Model of Inter-Temporal Equilibrium," Metroeconomica, 25:66- 80, 1973. (With Yakir Plessner)
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Agricultural Research, Extension, and Technological Innovation
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"The Economics of Agricultural Extension," Economic Quarterly, 1:77-90, 1972.
"The Process of an Innovation Cycle," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 55(1):28-37, 1973. (With Nira Shchori-Bachrach)
"Research and Productivity in Wheat and Maize," Journal of Political Economy, 81:1309-29, 1973. (With R. E. Evenson)
"Innovations and Research in Agricultural Development," ITCC Review, 3:168-178, 1974.
"Investment in Agricultural research and Extension," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 23:507-21, 1974/75. (With R. E. Evenson)
"An Analysis of the Dynamics of Technological change in Agriculture," IAAE Occasional Papers, 1975 [Merkaz Reprint Series No. 73]
“Agricultural Research and Productivity -- An International Analysis,” Supplement to International Journal of Agrarian Affairs, contributed papers read at the 15th International Conferences of Agricultural Economics, 1976 (With R. E. Evenson)
"A Stochastic Model of Applied Research," Journal of Political Economy, 84:265-281, 1976. (With R. E. Evenson)
"A Model of Agricultural Research," in Resource Allocation and Productivity in National and International Agricultural Research, eds: Thomas M. Arndt, Dana G. Dalrymple and Vernon W. Ruttan, University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
"The Economics of Agricultural Research, Some Recent Developments," Food Policy, 2:148-56, 1977.
"Research and Productivity in Wheat in Israel," Journal of Development Studies, 14:166-81, 1978. (With M. Hoffman)
“A Model of Yield Variability and Price Effects,” Staff Paper P80-28, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, UMN, 1980 (with Clifford Hildreth)
"Induced Innovations and Farm Mechanization," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63:562-65, 1981. (With Willis Peterson)
"Farmers' Financing of Agricultural Research in Israel," Research Policy, 11:321-27, 1982. (With Ehud Gelb)
"The Cotton Harvester in Retrospect: Labor Displacement or Replacement?" Journal of Economic History, 46:199-216, 1986. (With Willis Peterson)
“Measuring the Benefit of a Computer in the Milking Parlor,” WP9806 (With Edud Gelb and Hillary Voet), 1998.
"The Evenson-Kislev 'Research as Search' Model and the Green Revolution," Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 79/80:613-628, 2005. (With Robert E. Evenson)
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Family Farms, Farm Size and Economies of Scale
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"Overestimates of Returns to Scale in Agriculture--A Case of Synchronized Aggregation," Journal of Farm Economics, 48:967-83, Nov. 1966.
"Prices, Technology and Farm Size," Journal of Political Economy, 90:578-95, 1982. (With Willis Peterson)
"Economies of Scale in Agriculture: A Reexamination of the Evidence," in The Economics of Agriculture, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of D. Gale Johnson, eds.: John M. Antle and Daniel A. Sumner, Chicago, 1996, pp. 156-170 (With Willis Peterson)
"Intergenerational Transfers of Farmers: The Israeli Experience," Chapters 4-9 from Intergenerational Transfers of Farmers in Different Institutional Environments, BARD Project IS-1845-90 Final Report, 1995. (With Ayal Kimhi and Ramon Lopez)
"Intergenerational Succession in Israeli Family Farms: 1971-1988," (With Ayal Kimhi and Shlomit Arbel), Chapter 19 in Intergenerational Transfers of Farmers in Different Institutional Environments, BARD Project IS-1845-90 Final Report
"Old Age Security and Inter-Generational Transfer of family Farms," European Review of Agricultural Economics, 26(1):19- 37,1999. (With Claudio Pasquin and Ayal Kimhi)
“Foreign Labor and Farm Structure,” Working paper 2003-amended 2013
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Water
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"Urban Water in Israel," in: Agthe, Donald E., R. Bruce Billings, and Nathan Buras (eds.), Managing Urban Water Supply, Kluwer, 2003.
“Residential Demand for Water in Israel,” Working paper, 2005 (with Ziv Bar-Shira, Nir Cohen)
“Water Management and Policy: Rules vs. Discretion,” Discussion paper DP0112 revised, 2005 (with Or Goldbarb)
"The Water Economy of Israel," in: K. David Hambright, F. Jamil Ragep, and Joseph Ginat (eds.), Water in the Middle East, Oklahoma, 2006.
"Pricing of Water and Effluent in a Sustainable Salt Regime in Israel" in: Mohammed K. Zaidi (ed)," Wastewater Reuse - Risk Assessment, Decision-Making and Environmental Security, Springer, 2007 (With Or Goldfarb)
“Cost and Pricing in a Regime of Sustainable Water Resources,” Unpublished annex to “Pricing of Water and Effluent in a Sustainable Salt Regime in Israel,” 2007 (with Or Goldfarb)
“Water in Palestinian Localities,” Translated by “Yesh Din” advocacy group from the Hebrew article published in Water Engineering – The Israeli Water Magazine, March 2008
“A Sustainable Salt Regime In The Israeli Coastal Aquifer,” The Economics of Natural and Human Resources, ed. Kimhi and Finkelshtain, 2009 (with Or Goldfarb)
"Economic Aspects of Irrigation with Treated Wastewater," in: Guy J. Levy, Pinchas Fine, and Asher Bar-Tal (eds), Treated Wastewater in Agriculture, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 (With Efrat Hadas)
The Water Economy of Israel, historical overview and policy analysis translated from Hebrew, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, Policy Paper 2011.15, November 2011.
"Water Pricing in Israel in Theory and Practice," in: Sharon B. Megdal, Robert Varady, and Susanna Eden (eds.) Shared Borders Shared Water, CRC, 2013.
"Water in Agriculture," in: Nir Becker (ed.) Water
Policy in Israel,
Springer, 2013.
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Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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“Capital intensity and product composition in the kibbutz and the moshav in Israel”, Center for Agricultural Economic Research Reprint series 8202, 1982
"Cooperation in the Moshav," Journal of Comparative Economics, 8:54-73, 1984. (With Nava Haruvi)
“Experience with Credit Cooperatives in Israeli Agriculture,” World Bank study WP8902, 1989
“A Theory of Agricultural Settlement,” Discussion paper DP8601, 1986 (with Eli Feinerman)
"Agricultural Settlement with Joint Production Services," Agricultural Economics, 6:1-13, 1991. (With Eli Feinerman)
"Recent Experience with Cooperative Farm Credit in Israel," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 39:773-89, July 1991. (With Zvi Lerman and Pinhas Zusman)
"Family Farms, Cooperatives and Collectives," in Sustainable Agricultural Development: The Role of International Cooperation, Proceedings of the Twenty First International Conference of Agricultural Economists (Tokyo, August 1991), G. H. Peters and B. F. Stanton (editors), Dartmouth, 1992.
"Cooperative Credit in Israeli Agriculture," in The Economics of Rural Organization: Theory, Practice, and Policy, K. Hoff, A. Braverman and J. Stiglitz (editors), Oxford, 1993. (with Zvi Lerman and Pinhas Zusman)
"Experience with Collective Action and Cooperation in Agriculture in Israel," in Agricultural Cooperatives in Transition, Csaba Csaki and Yoav Kislev (editors), Westview, 1993.
“Farmer cooperatives and the coffee auction in Tanzania,” Discussion paper DP9915, 1999. (with Anacleti Kashuliza)
“Recent Experience with Agricultural Co-operatives in Israel,” NIRP report, 2000.
"Agricultural Cooperatives in Israel, Past and Present," in: Ayal Kimhi and Zvi Lerman (eds.) Agricultural Transition in Post-Soviet Europe and Central Asia after 20 Years, IAMO – Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe, Halle, Germany, 2015.
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Israel Agriculture
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"Economic Aspects of Selection in the Dairy Herd in Israel," Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 23:128-46, 1979. (With Uri Rabiner)
"The Dairy Industry of Israel," in: Animal Production Systems, ed.: Barry L. Nestel, Elsevier, 1984. (With M. Meisels and S. Amir)
“Aspects of Agricultural Development in Israel,” Discussion paper DP8512, 1985 [English version of article written for the Hebrew Encyclopedia]
"Structure and Reform of Agriculture in Israel," in The Agricultural Transition in Eastern and Central Europe and the U.S.S.R, Avishay Braverman, Karen M. Brooks, and Csaba Csaki (editors), The World Bank, 1993.
“Equilibrium Contracts in the Israeli Citrus Industry,” Discussion paper DP1004, 2004. (With Yael Kachel, Israel Finkelshtain)
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Labor Economics
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“Wages, Turnover and Job Security,” Discussion Paper DRD196, World Bank, Development Research Department, September 1986.
“A Simple Model of Seniority and Turnover,” Discussion paper DRD195, World Bank, Development Research Department, October 1986.
“An Intercountry Analysis of Employment and Return to Labor in Agriculture,” Discussion Paper DRD230, World Bank, Development Research Department, February 1987.
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Political Economy
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"Management, Risk, and Competitive Equilibrium," Proceedings of Operations Research in Agriculture and Water Resources, eds.: D. Yaron and C. Tapiero, North Holland, 1980.
"International Farm Prices and the Social Cost of Cheap Food Policies: Comment," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63: 1981.
"Prices vs. Quantities: The Political Perspective," Journal of Political Economy, 105:83-100, 1995. (With Israel Finkelshtain)
"Economic Regulation and Political Influence," in: Contemporary Economic Issues, Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of the international Economic Association, Tunis. Volume 2: Labour, Food and Poverty, MacMillan, 1998. (With Israel Finkelshtain)
"Taxes and Subsidies in a Polluting and Politically Powerful Industry," Asian Journal of Economics, 15(3):481-92, 2004. (With Israel Finkelshtain)
“A Two-Pronged Control of Natural Resources: Prices and Quantities with Lobbying,” Working paper, 2011 (with Iddo Kan, Israel Finkelshtain)
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Transition Economies
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"Agricultural Output and Productivity in the Former Soviet Republics," Economic Development and Cultural C
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51(4):999-1018, July 2003. (With Zvi Lerman, Alon Kriss, and David Biton)
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