Haim Ofek

Department of Economics
State University of New York
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

E-MAIL:
hofek@binghamton.edu

FAX:
(607) 777-2681

PHONES:
(607) 724-8855
(607) 777-4454


EDUCATION: Ph.D. Columbia University, 1971.
Fields: Labor Economics and Mathematical Economics.
Title of Dissertation: Allocation of Time and Goods in a Family Context.

Committee: Gary S. Becker (Chairman)
James J. Heckman
Kelvin Lancaster

M.A. Hebrew University , (passed with distinction), 1967.
Fields: Labor Economics and Economic Theory.
B.A. Hebrew University , 1964.
Major Fields: Economics and Mathematics.


ACADEMIC POSITIONS: 1999-present Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
1981-99 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
1976-78 Research Associate, Center for the Social Sciences, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University.
1975-76 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago.
1971-75 Lecturer in Economics, Hebrew University.


VISITING POSITIONS: 1994-95 Visiting Scholar, The University of Chicago.
1986-87 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Haifa.
1980-81 O'Connor Associate Professor of Economics, Colgate University.
1978-79 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.


AREAS OF CONCENTRATION IN RESEARCH: (1) Labor Economics
(2) Evolutionary Economics
(3) Economic Theory


PUBLICATIONS:

I. Books

Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution, (Cambridge University Press, 2001).



II. Articles in Refereed Journals

"The Value of Time in Consumption and Residential Location in an Urban Setting," (with Oded Hochman), American Economic Review, Vol. 67, No. 5, December 1977, pp. 996-1003.

"Indexation of Contractual and Regulated Prices: A Methodology of Microindexation," Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 31., No. 2, Winter 1979, pp. 119-125.

"The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Comment, Journal of Political Economy, Volume 87, Number 1, February 1979, pp. 197-201, (with Jacob Mincer).

"Is the Macro-production Function Linear Homogeneous," (with Jacob Paroush), Journal of The New York Economic Association, Vol. IX, 1979, pp. 68-76.

"A Theory of the Behavior of Municipal Governments: The Case of Internalizing Pollution Externalities," (with Oded Hochman), Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 6, October 1979 pp. 416-431.

"The Economic Attainment of Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Parental Role," (with F. Pickford), Economica, 46, November 1979, pp. 427-433.

"Is Perfect Competition an Empirically Inadequate Model?", Economic Inquiry, Vol. XX, No. 1, January 1982, pp. 21-39.

"Interrupted Work Careers: Depreciation and Restoration of Human Capital," (with J. Mincer) Journal of Human Resources, Vol. XVII, No. 1, Winter 1982, pp. 1-24,(lead article).

"Endogenous Risk in Oligopolistic Competition and Quasi-Competitiveness in Cournot Markets," (with Jacob Paroush) Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 2, pp. 1-8, July 1986 (lead article).

"City Size, Quality of Life, and the Urbanization Deflator of the GNP: 1910-1984," (with J. Kahn an D. Clark), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3, January 1988, pp. 701-714.

"The Urbanization Deflator of the GNP, 1919 - 1984: Reply," (with James Kahn an David Clark), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 57, No 4, pp. 1179- 1182, April 1991.

"The Equilibrium Distribution of Population and Wages in a System of Cities," (with J. Kahn) Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 22, No 3, Winter 1992, pp. 201-216 (lead article).

"Labor Mobility and the Formation of Gender Wage Gaps in Local Markets," (with Yesook Merrill), Economic Inquiry, Vol. XXXV, No 1, pp. 28-47, January 1997.



III. Chapters in Books and Book Reviews

"Population, Labor Force, and Employment," Chapter IX, in Bank of Israel Annual Report 1966, pp. 213-234.

Review of "America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy." by H. F. Ladd and J. Yinger, Johns Hopkins University Press 1989, (with Clifford Kern), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 57, No 1, pp. 259-261, July 1990.

"Interrupted Work Careers: Depreciation and Restoration of Human Capital," reprint from the Journal of Human Resources, (lead article), Vol. XVII, No. 1, Winter 1982, pp. 1-24, (with Jacob Mincer), Chapter 6, in Jacob Mincer, Studies in Labor Supply, Vol. 2, pp. 140- 160 (Edward Elgar, University Press, Cambridge U.K. 1993).



IV. Reviews and Replies in Response to Ofek's Published Works

Alan Grafen (2002), "Should It Be Homo economicus?" Science, 296:1243 (May 17).

Jo㯠Ricardo Faria (2002), "Review of Haim Ofek Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution", EH.NET (Economic History Services), May 30, URL : http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0491.shtml

Christopher Wills (2002), "Hominid Economics", Nature, 416, 370-371 (March 28).

D. Bantz (Sept. 2002), Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution. (book review). Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries , 40, 1, 146.

Alexander J. Field (Sept. 2002), [Review of] Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution, by Haim Ofek. Journal of Economic History, 62, 3, 922-924.

R. Szostak (Dec. 2002), [Review of] Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution. Journal of Economic Literature, 40, 4, 1283-84.

W. Young (March 2003), Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution - Haim Ofek (book review). European Journal of Political Economy, 19, 1, 159-160 .

J. Burns (May 2003), "Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution" by Haim Ofek (book review). The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 40, 2, 243 .

Robert Whaples (April 1991), The Urbanization Deflator of the GNP, 1919 - 1984: Comment. Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 57, No 4, 1174- 78.

James J. Heckman and Robert J. Willis (Feb. 1979). Reply to Mincer and Ofek [The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women], Journal of Political Economy, 87, 1, 203-11