Israel Institute Visiting Professor (2023–2024); Senior Lecturer, Economics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot is a Senior Lecturer in the Economics Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics for which she evaluates policy-relevant questions using large datasets (“big data”) and econometric methods. Her research fields include labor, education, gender and family, and health economics. Dr. Lichtman-Sadot published works and working papers deal with a wide variety of topics that mostly relate to economic, social, and health disparities. These include: California’s Paid Family Leave Program, school food environments, Jewish-Arab labor market, education and health gaps within Israel, and US welfare reform. Shirlee completed her PhD in Economics at Stanford University in 2013 and has been serving as a Research Fellow in the IZA Institute for Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany since 2019.
