Research  papers 

Follow the Crowd: But Who Follows, Who Counteracts, and Which Crowd? (with Inbal Dekel).

• ​​​Instructions and survey instruments

On the Workings of Tribal Politics (with Bnaya Dreyfuss and Assaf Patir).

​Trading Stocks Builds Financial Confidence and Compresses the Gender Gap (with Saumitra Jha). Conditionally accepted, The Economic Journal. 
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Discrimination between Religious and Non-Religious Groups: Evidence from Marking High-Stakes Exams​​ (with Victor Lavy and Edith Sand). The Economic Journal. 2022.

• Appendix

International Integration and Social Identity (with Boaz Abramson).​ Journal of International Economics. 137, 2022.

How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption (with David Atkin and Eve Colson-Sihra). Journal of Political Economy. 129 (4), 1193-1251. 2021. 
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How Markets Shape Values and Political Preferences: A Field Experiment (with Yotam Margalit). American Journal of Political Science. 65(2), 473-492. 2021. 

Social Identity and Economic Policy. Annual Review of Economics. Vol 12, 355-389. 2020.
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Valuing Peace: The Effects of Financial Market Exposure on Votes and Political Attitudes (with Saumitra Jha). Econometrica. 87(5), 1561-1588. 2019

• ​Instructions and survey instruments
• Media: Washington Post, Calcalist, podcast in Hebrew

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Conflict and the Persistence of Ethnic Bias (with Asaf Zussman). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 9(4):137-165, 2017.

• Appendix

Long Term Savings Decisions: Financial Reform, Peer Effects and Ethnicity (with  Yevgeny Mugerman and Orly Sade). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 106: 235-253, 2014.

Social Identification and Ethnic Conflict (with Nicholas Sambanis). American Political Science Review, 107(2): 294-325, 2013.

Parochialism as a Central Challenge in Counterinsurgency (with Nicholas Sambanis and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl). Science, Vol. 336 no. 6083, 805-808, 2012. 

Non-Consequentialist Voting (with Alon Harel). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 81(1): 299-313, 2012.
  
Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism (with Asaf Zussman). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(3): 1447-1484, 2011.

• Media: Science (Editor's Choice), WSJ
• Online appendix

Social Identity and Preferences over Redistribution (with Esteban Klor). Journal of Public Economics, 94, 269-278, 2010. 

• Here are the instructions used in the experiment.

   
A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy: Nation, Class and Redistribution. American Political Science Review 103(2), 147-174, 2009.

• Slides
• Winner of the Michael Wallerstein Award  for best article published in the area of political economy in 2009.
• Here is a previous version (Shayo 2007) with a more general equilibrium concept; a more thorough discussion of the experimental evidence underlying the model of social identity; and a more detailed data appendix (note this version uses a different definition of democracy).
• Replication data and online appendix.

How Large Are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand? (with Ori Heffetz). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4), 170–99, 2009.

• Media: The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today

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Older/Other

"Financial Market Exposure Raises Support for Peace", with Saumitra Jha, The Political Economist, 2016.

​“Behavioral Economics and its Applications, Edited by Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen” (book review). Economica, 76(302): 404-405. 2009. 

The Critique of the Enlightenment in the Early Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau.  Politika 8, pp. 25-46, 2002 [in Hebrew].

Persistent Poverty in Israel: Results from Linked 1983 and 1995 Census Data.(with Michael Vaknin), The Economics Quarterly 47(4), pp. 597-628, 2000 [in Hebrew].

Adam Smith's Concept of the Division of Labour, The Economics Quarterly 44(3), pp. 434-459, 1997 [in Hebrew].
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