List of Papers, Books and Reports:

A surge in emigration from Israel during judicial coup attempt preceding the wart, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, November 2024.

Discussion points for Nagel Commission on next decade’s defense budget and military development, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, August 2024.

Education in Israel from an international and demographic perspective, Dan Ben-David and Ayal Kimhi, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Research Paper, November 2023.

Impact of parental education on their children’s achievements: A comparison of Israel to the leading countries in PISA exams, 2006-2018, Ariela Savin, Ayal Kimhi and Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Research Paper, June 2023.

Teachers’ wages in Israel - A comparative perspective, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, August 2022.

High Prices in Israel? Caveat Emptor. Beware of International Comparisons, Dan Ben-David and Ayal Kimhi, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, October 2021

Shoresh Handbook 2021: A Snapshot of Israel’s Education System, Dan Ben-David, August 2021.

Minimum wage’s impact on employees – An example from Israel, Brit Levanon, Ayal Kimhi, and Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, August 2021.

Non-transparency’s impact on Israel’s future: A socioeconomic perspective, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, October 2020.

Anarchy at the helm with Covid-19 on deck: Israel's lethal and horizon-less mix at the half year mark, Dan Ben-David and Ayal Kimhi, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, September 2020.

Education quality and future wages: The impact of math matriculation quality in the periphery and center of Israel, Dan Ben-David and Ayal Kimhi, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Paper, August 2020.

Ensuring an almost fully operational economy in Israel during additional waves of the pandemic in the coming year, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, April 2020.

Doing (learning) the math in Israel: Conflicting demographic trends and the core curriculum, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Paper, November 2019.

Leaving the Promised Land – A look at Israel’s emigration challenge, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Paper, May 2019.

Two Wars and Demography – A Long Run View of Israel’s Recent Elections, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, May 2019.

Changing the discourse – A visual primer for Israel’s 2019 elections, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, April 2019.

Overpopulation and demography in Israel – Directions, perceptions, illusions and solutions, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, November 2018.

An Overview of Israel’s Education System and its Impact (a comprehensive analysis of the Shoresh Handbook), Dan Ben-David and Ayal Kimhi, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, December 2017.

The Shoresh Handbook 2017-2018: Education and its impact, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, December 2017

full Shoresh Handbook – PDF file

comprehensive analysis of Shoresh Handbook

Israel’s primary socioeconomic challenges and policy areas requiring core treatment, Dan Ben-David and Ayal Kimhi, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, May 2017.

Longer lives and exasperated patients: Israel’s health system does it the hard way, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, April 2017.

The Socioeconomic Effects of Education Quality versus Quantity – Lessons from Israel’s extensive natural experiment in the 2000s, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, December 2016.

complete paper

executive summary

On the Gender Gap in Israel’s Labor Market, Sagit Azary-Viesel and Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, Policy Brief, March 2016.

The Shoresh Handbook on Israel’s society and economy 2015, Dan Ben-David, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, October 2015

full Shoresh Handbook – PDF file

full Shoresh Handbook – Powerpoint slides

executive summary of the Shoresh Handbook

State of the Nation Report – Society, Economy and Policy 2014, Dan Ben-David (editor), Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2014.

Chapter by Dan Ben-David:

·    Labor Market Reform in Israel and the Flexicurity Option,” pages 171-223 (with Liora Bowers).

A Picture of the Nation 2014 – Israel’s Society and Economy in Figures, Dan Ben-David, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, May 2014.

A Picture of the Nation 2014 – PDF file

A Picture of the Nation 2014 – Powerpoint slides

State of the Nation Report – Society, Economy and Policy 2013, Dan Ben-David (editor), Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, November 2013.

Chapters by Dan Ben-David:

·    Poverty and Inequality Over Time In Israel and the OECD,” pages 17-72 (with Haim Bleikh).

·    Labor Productivity in Israel,” pages 95-115.

·    Update on the State of Israel’s Universities and its Researchers,” pages 301-310.

State of the Nation in Pictures 2013 – Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Dan Ben-David, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, April 2013.

State of the Nation in Pictures 2013 – PDF file,

State of the Nation in Pictures 2013 – Powerpoint slides

State of the Nation Report – Society, Economy and Policy 2011-2012, Dan Ben-David (editor), Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2012.

Chapter by Dan Ben-David:

·    The Start-Up Nation’s Threat from Within,” pages 17-93.

State of the Nation Report – Society, Economy and Policy 2010, Dan Ben-David (editor), Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2011.

Chapters by Dan Ben-David:

·    Public Spending in Israel over the Long Run,” pages 55-83.

·    Israel’s Shadow Economy,” pages 87-90.

·    Israel’s Educational Achievements: Updated International Comparisons ,” pages 327-336.

The State of Israel’s Education and Its Implications – A Visual Roadmap, Dan Ben-David, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, October 2011.

"A New Public Agenda for Israel”, A proposal by the heads of the Taub Center, Eran Yashiv (editor), Dan Ben-David, Dov Chernichovsky, Ayal Kimhi, Michael Shalev, Yossi Shavit (August 2011).

State of the Nation Report – Society, Economy and Policy 2009, Dan Ben-David (editor), Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, September 2010.

Chapters by Dan Ben-David:

·    A Macro Perspective of Israel’s Society and Economy,” pages 17-48.

·    Public Expenditures – A Look at Israel’s National Priorities,” pages 49-114.

·    Israel’s Education System – An International Perspective and Recommendations for Reform,” pages 115-156.

·    Israel’s Labor Market – Today, in the Past and in Comparison with the West,” pages 213-276.

A Comprehensive Program for Reducing Inequality and Poverty and Increasing Economic Growth in Israel, Dan Ben-David (editor), Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, May 2009.

Higher education in Israel:

·     Brain Drained,” CEPR Discussion Paper 6717 (2008).

·    Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists,” Contemporary Economic Policy, July 2009.

·    Ranking Israel's Economists, Scientometrics, June, 2009.

Unbalanced Funding of Local Authorities: A Local Perspective to National Priorities” (in Hebrew)
Dan Ben-David and Yuval Erez (October 2004).

A Blueprint for Improving the Employment Outlook in Israel
Dan Ben-David (chair), Avner Ahituv, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Haya Stier (March 2004). Published in 2006 in Reinventing Government in Israel, Uriel Riechman and David Nachmias (eds)
Summary in English

A Proposal for Structural Change in Israel's Educational System” (in Hebrew). Summary in English
ELA Commission: Herzl Bodinger (chair), Tamar Barak, Dan Ben-David, Edo Ohayon, Dalia Prashker, Shabtai Shavit, Tzvi Tsameret, Hillel Wahrman (November 2003)

The Main Recommendations of the ELA and Dovrat Commissions - Review and Comments” (in Hebrew).
Dan Ben-David, Hamifne (December 2004).

Inequality and Growth in Israel,” (in Hebrew).
A series of four articles published in the Israel Quarterly Journal of Economics on March 2003. Dan Ben-David (July 2002)

·    “Israel's Long-Run Socio-Economic Trajectories”

·    “A Socio-Economic Perspective of Israel's Educational System in an Era of Globalization”

·    “Israel's Work Force from an International Perspective”

·    “Israel's Transportation Infrastructure from a Socio-Economic Perspective”

Outline of Israel's main socio-economic problems” (in Hebrew).
Updated outline of testimony on Nov. 14, 2001 before Knesset's Special Parliamentary Investigative Committee on Social Gaps.
Dan Ben-David (July 2002).

National Socio-Economic Priorities” (in Hebrew)
Requested by Prime Minister Ehud Barak and presented in cabinet meeting on May 2000.
Dan Ben-David (ed), Haim Ben-Shahar (chair), Elhanan Helpman, Efraim Sadka, Yossi Shavit, Haya Stier, Manuel Trajtenberg and Dani Tsiddon (May 2000)