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What are Choice Prediction Competitions?

Choice prediction competitions aim to promote the development of models that may predict, rather than merely describe, behavior in the social sciences. Each competition focuses of a different area of interest in behavioral decision/economic research.

Prof. Aliza Fleischer

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1983.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

  • Assessment of ecosystem services
  • Economic impact of global climate change
  • Economics of tourism
  • Rural tourism
  • The sharing economy

EMPLOYMENT:

Teaching

Resource Economics (71183)

The course provides knowledge in management of renewable natural resources and unrenewable resources. We use Dynamic models in problems of exploitation of natural resources over time. We will discuss the problems of market failures, considerations of social interest vr private interest  intergenerational allocation of natural resources.

Recent discussion papers

 

   Term limits, corruption and growth

 

Water policy guidelines: A comprehensive approach (with Amos Zemel)
Coping with multiple catastrophic threats: An intertemporal approach (with Amos Zemel)
The management of fragile resources: A long term perspective (with Amos Zemel)
Bounding reasonable doubt: Implications for plea bargaining
Policy tradeoffs under risk of abrupt climate change (with Amos Zemel)
A simple method for analyzing optimal steady states in multi-dimensional resource models (with Amos Zemel)
Government time preferences and national debt
Closing the (widening) gap between natural water resources and water needs in the Jordan River Basin: A long term perspective
Public debt and time preferences: Insolvency, excessive saving and in between
Dynamic regulation of nonpoint source pollution when the number of emitters is large (with Harry de Gorter)
Dynamic and stochastic analysis of environmental and natural resources (with Amos Zemel)
Preparing for catastrophic climate change (with Cees Withagen)
Uncertain Climate Policy and the Green Paradox (with Sjak Smulders and Amos Zemel)
Resource management with stochastic recharge and environmental threats (with Arie Leizarowitz)
Market Structure and the Penetration of Alternative Energy Technologies (with Amos Zemel)
Time perspective and climate change policy (with Larry Karp)

Working Papers

 

 

Kimhi, Ayal. Economic Well-Being in Rural Communities in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 2.04, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Feb. 2004.
Kimhi, Ayal. The Role of Agriculture in Rural Well-Being in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 3.04, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Feb. 2004
Kimhi, Ayal. Growth, Inequality and Labor Markets in LDCs: A Survey. Discussion Paper No. 8.04, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, April 2004.
Kimhi, Ayal. Gender and Intrahousehold Food Allocation in Southern Ethiopia. Discussion Paper No. 9.04, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, September 2004.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Hila Rekah. The Simultaneous Evolution of Farm Size and Specialization: Dynamic Panel Data Evidence from Israeli Farm Communities. Discussion Paper No. 13.05, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, December 2005.
Dolev, Yuval, and Ayal Kimhi. Survival and Growth of Family Farms in Israel: 1971-1995. Discussion Paper No. 3.06, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, September 2006.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Ofir D. Rubin. Assessing the Response of Farm Households to Dairy Policy Reform in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 15.06, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, December 2006.
Iddo Kan, Ayal Kimhi and Zvi Lerman. Farm Output, Non-Farm Income, and Commercialization in Rural Georgia. Discussion paper No. 16.06, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, December 2006.
Joseph Gogodze, Iddo Kan and Ayal Kimhi. Land Reform and Rural Well Being in the Republic of Georgia: 1996-2003. Discussion paper No. 1.07, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, January 2007.
Ayal Kimhi. Does Land Reform in Transition Countries Increase Child Labor? Evidence from the Republic of Georgia. Discussion Paper No. 4.07, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, February 2007.
Goodwin, Barry K., Ashok K. Mishra, and Ayal Kimhi. Household Time Allocation and Endogenous Farm Structure: Implications for the Design of Agricultural Policies. Discussion Paper No. 11.07, July 2007.
Ayal Kimhi. Regression-Based Inequality Decomposition: A Critical Review and Application to Farm-Household Income Data. Discussion Paper No. 16.07, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, November 2007.
Kimhi, Ayal and Hila Rekah. Are changes in Farm Size and Labor Allocation Structurally Related? Dynamic Panel Evidence from Israel. Discussion Paper No. 17.07, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, December 2007.
Kimhi, Ayal. Revitalizing and Modernizing Smallholder Agriculture for Food Security, Rural Development and Demobilization in a Post-War Country: The Case of the Aldeia Nova Project in Angola. Discussion Paper No. 04.09, , March 2009.
Kimhi, Ayal. On the Interpretation (and Misinterpretation) of Inequality Decompositions by Income Sources. Discussion Paper No. 09.09, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, September 2009.
Kimhi, Ayal. Land Reform and Farm-Household Income Inequality: The Case of Georgia. Discussion Paper No. 10.09, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, September 2009.
Kimhi, Ayal. International Remittances, Domestic Remittances, and Income Inequality in the Dominican Republic. Discussion Paper No. 2.10, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, February 2010.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Sarit Menahem. Does Rural Household Income Depend on Neighboring Urban Centers?
Kimhi, Ayal, and Nitzan Tzur. Long-Run Trends in the Farm Size Distribution in Israel: The Role of Part-Time Farming. Discussion Paper No. 1.11, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, January 2011.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Moran Sandel. Religious Schooling, Secular Schooling, and Household Income Inequality in Israel. AlmaLaurea Working Papers No. 29, September 2011.
Heizler, Odelia, and Ayal Kimhi. Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking? IZA Discussion Paper No. 6380, February 2012.
Kimhi, Ayal. Pre-Primary Education in Israel: Organizational and Demographic Aspects. Policy Paper No. 2012.01, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, March 2012.
Heizler, Odelia, Nira Yacouel, and Ayal Kimhi. Sociability and the Timing of First Marriage. IZA Discussion Paper No. 6607, May 2012.
Iddo Kan, Yoav Motro, Nir Horvitz, Ayal Kimhi, Yossi Leshem, Yoram Yom-Tov and Ran Nathan. Economic Efficiency of Agricultural Rodent Control Using Barn Owls. Discussion Paper No. 7.12, August 2013.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Michal Shafir-Tidhar. Income Inequality between and within Population Groups in Israel: 1997-2010. Research Paper No. 12-02, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, September 2012.
Fishman, Ezra, and Ayal Kimhi. Is the Israeli Labor Market Segmented? Research Paper No. 13-01, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, August 2013.
Kan, Iddo, Ayal Kimhi, and Jonathan Kaminski. Structural Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture under Partial Equilibrium. Discussion Paper No. 13.13, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2013.
Kimhi, Ayal. Are Migrant Agricultural Workers Replacing the Local Workforce? Discussion Paper No. 10.14, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2014.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Arik Horowitz. The Importance of the Level of High School Math Studies to the Academic Studies and Future Careers of Israeli Students. Policy Paper No. 2015.01, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, April 2015.
Lewin-Epstein, Noah, Ortal Siminovich, and Ayal Kimhi. Public Opinion towards Agriculture and Rural Areas in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 6.16, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2016.
Ben-David, Dan, and Ayal Kimhi. An Overview of Israel’s Education System and its Impact. Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, December 2017.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Maya Sender. Does Consumption Decrease After Retirement, and for Whom? Discussion Paper No. 18.01, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2018.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Ami Reznik. Efficiency Implications of the Dairy Farm Policy Reform in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 18.03, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2018.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Nirit Hanuka-Taflia. What Drives the Convergence in Male and Female Wage Distributions in Israel? A Shapley Decomposition Approach. Discussion Paper No. 18.04, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2018.
Menahem-Carmi, Sarit, and Ayal Kimhi. A Primer on Israel’s Pension System: Where it is Today and Suggestions for the Future. Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, June 2018.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Ortal Siminovich. Who Exits from a Reforming Sector? The Case of Dairy Farmers in Israel. Discussion Paper No. 18.05, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2018.pdf
Kan, Iddo, Ami Reznik, Ayal Kimhi, and Jonathan Kaminski. The Impacts of Climate Change on Cropland Allocation, Crop Production, Output Prices and Social Welfare in Israel... Discussion Paper No. 18.06, The Center for Agricultural, 2018.
Kimhi, Ayal, and Nirit Hanuka-Taflia. Do Foreign Workers Affect Local Wages: Evidence from Israeli Agriculture. Discussion Paper No. 1.20, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2020.
Rittberg, Yuval, and Ayal Kimhi. Does the Cost of Foreign Workers Affect the Wages of Local Agricultural Workers? Evidence from Israel. Discussion Paper No. 3.20, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, 2020.
Ben-David, Dan, and Ayal Kimhi. Education Quality and Future Wages: The Impact of Math Matriculation Quality in the Periphery and Center of Israel, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, August 2020.
Kimhi, Ayal. Education, Migration, Employment and Wages of Young People Who Grew Up in Moshavim. Discussion Paper No. 4.21, The Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Rehovot, Israel, March 2021.
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Honors

Awards

1956 Best graduate paper, American Farm Economic Association

1957 Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation, American Farm Economic Association

1965 Best published research, American Farm Economic Association for:
Long Term Projections of Supply and Demand for Agricultural Products in Israel, 1964

1965 Bareli Prize, Israel

1972 Rothschild Prize, Israel