Tom Zohar

I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at CEMFI, and a Research Affiliate at CESifo. I work on labor market inequality, with a special interest in intergenerational mobility and the relationship between fertility decisions and labor supply. I recieved my PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2021.

Working Papers

Work in Progress

CV

Email

tom.zohar[at]cemfi[dot]es

Working Papers

Out of Labor and Into the Labor Force? The Role of Abortion Access, Social Stigma, and Financial Constraints

Reject & Resubmit at the Journal of Poltical Economy

with Nina Brooks

Access to free abortion delays parenthood & increases career investment

How come? religious women do not need to consult family members for financial support, allowing them to have an abortion in private.

Quantifying the Role of Firms in Intergenerational Mobility (Submitted)

with Caue Dobbin

CESifo Working Paper

Firm's wage premium are highly correlated with parental earnings.

Access to better-paying firms are responsible for 22% of the intergenerational earnings elasticity.

Flexible Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity in Event Studies: Application to the Child Penalty

with Dmitry Arkhangelsky and Kazuharu Yanagimoto

R package (unitdid)

How can we use unit-level estimates in our analysis?

We provide a tool-kit to use these estimates as an outcome (e.g. policy-evaluation) and a regressor (e.g., IGM).

Selected Work in Progress

Are Layoffs and Wages Independent?

with Daniel Fernandez and Caue Dobbin

The Role of Information Campaigns on Contraception Use and Teen Pregnancy

with Sevin Kaytan and Stwarth Piedra Bonilla

Prostitution and Employment

with Sevin Kaytan

Children of immigrants: Intergenerational mobility across countries (Spain team)

Coordinators: Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, Alan Manning, Santiago Pérez

Spain team: Jaime Arellano-Bover and Javier Soria Espín

Policy Reports

Digital inclusion and employability improvement -- pilot project in Spain

with Miguel Almunia

Contact

Location

C. Casado del Alisal, 5 Madrid, Spain, 28014

Email

tom.zohar[at]cemfi[dot]es

Tom Zohar