Tom Zohar

I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at CEMFI, and a Research Affiliate at CESifo and Reichman University. I work on labor market inequality and it's relationship with workers' mobility. I am also interested in the role of social norms on fertility decisions and it's implications to labor supply. I received my PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2021.

Working Papers

Work in Progress

CV

Email

tom.zohar[at]cemfi[dot]es

Working Papers

Women's Autonomy and Abortion Decision-Making
(R&R at JPE)

Formerly known as `Out of Labor and Into the Labor Force? The Role of Abortion Access, Social Stigma, and Financial Constraints'

with Nina Brooks

Abortion funding policies enhance women's autonomy.

Why? women don't need to consult family for financial support, allowing them to have an abortion in private. This autonomy allows them to avoid early parenthood & marriage.

Quantifying the Role of Firms in Intergenerational Mobility
(R&R at AEJ:Applied)

with Caue Dobbin

CESifo Working Paper

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

Access to better-paying firms is responsible for 22% of the intergenerational earnings elasticity, half of which due to skill-based sorting.

Using Event Studies as an Outcome in Causal Analysis

with Dmitry Arkhangelsky and Kazuharu Yanagimoto

R package (unitdid)

Why & how should we use unit-level event-study?

We provide a tool-kit to use these estimates as an outcome (e.g. policy-evaluation) allowing for flexible approach tailored ex-post to specific research questions and contexts.

The Complementary Role of Information and Contraceptive Access in Teen Pregnancy

with Sevin Kaytan and Stwarth Piedra Bonilla

What explain the large reduction in teen-birth?

Shift info source from parents to healthcare professionals in conservative districts, mitigate misinformation and risky behaviors.

Separations Revisited: Do Layoffs or Quits Drive Lower Separation Rates in High-Quality Firms?

with Daniel Fernandez and Caue Dobbin

Answer: Layoffs! a stylized fact we name the `quality-layoff correlation'

What explains the quality-layoff correlation? The interaction of wage rigidity and worker productivity shocks generate inefficient layoffs that decline with firm quality.

Children of Immigrants: Intergenerational Mobility Across Countries

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

Spain team: Jaime Arellano-Bover, Javier Soria Espín, and Tom Zohar

We document large income gaps for first-generation immigrants that diminish in the second generation.

Around half of the second-generation gap can be explained by differences in parental income, with the remainder due to differential rates of absolute mobility.

Selected Work in Progress

Labor Market Consequences of Perinatal Depression

with Sonia Bhalotra, Meltem Daysal, Priyama Majumdar and Mircea Trandafir

Social Norms Implications of Prostitution, a Transitory or Absorbing State?

with Nina Buchmann and Sevin Kaytan

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