Omry  Yoresh

Omry Yoresh

PhD Candidate in Economics

Department of Economics

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Languages
English, Hebrew
Key Expertise
Economics

About me

Omry is an MRes/PhD candidate in the Department of Economics. His main research interests are labour and public economics, focusing on inequality, discrimination and job search.

Omry holds an MA in Economics and a BA in Economics and International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining the Department, he was employed as a research assistant to Victor Lavy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and to Adi Brender at the Bank of Israel.

Research Interests
Labour Economics, Public Economics

Supervisors
Camille Landais 
Steve Pischke

Publications 
"Heads Up: Does Air Pollution Cause Workplace Accidents?" with Victor Lavy and Genia Rachkovski. Accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.

Works-in-progress  
"The Formation of Judicial Bias: Critical Periods, Conflict Exposure, and Out-group Contact." 
"Inequality in Internships", with Ben Dahmen.
"The Effects of Slum Demolitions: Evidence from Victorian Britain", with Ran Abramitzky, Elibeth Cirilo, Yiming He, Stephan Maurer, and Guy Michaels.

Expertise Details

Labour economics; Public economics