• Economics Service

    Economic considerations play a major role in national policy decisions as well as in government decisions on the development and design of services. The Economics Service at MJB assists all the Institute’s research teams in the use of economic analysis in their studies, enabling them to evaluate services and inform policy development more fully. In addition, the Economics Service leads MJB's economic research on cross-cutting issues related to various social services. The main emphasis of the Economics Service is in assimilating economic thinking into the decision-making process in government ministries.

    2024 Research Themes

    • Education
    • Health
    • Welfare
    • Arab Population
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    2024 Research Themes

    Education
    Health
    Welfare
    Arab Population

    Research Staff

    Adi Arad

    Research Analyst

    Alexander Zablotsky

    Research associate

    Dr. Steven Laufer

    Researcher

    Dr. Yaniv Reingewertz

    Consultant

    Nitza Wurmbrand

    Administrative Coordinator

    Prof. Bruce Rosen

    Systems Research Group Leader and Director of the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research

    Recent Publications

    Performance Indicators in Local Authorities
    Dr. Yaniv Reingewertz, Adi Arad, Alexander Zablotsky
    2024

    The Ministry of Finance has commissioned the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute to conduct a study designed to: 1. Identify the activity areas of local authorities to be measured using performance indicators 2. Suggest performance indicators for local authorities that can adequately express the quantity and quality of their performance on a variety of activity areas 3. Demonstrate the practical utility of the performance indicators by characterizing the leading local authorities. 4. To compare between the local authority and other authorities in its reference group, thus providing a more accurate estimate of its relative performance.
    Work and Leisure Preferences after Age 60
    Adi Arad, Dr. Yaniv Reingewertz
    2024

    The objectives of the study are: 1. Assess the workforce participation rate of sixty plus-year-olds 2. Evaluate the degree to which their desire to work after retirement age is indeed met, that is, assess the degree to which unemployed retirees would like to work, as well as the degree to which employed individuals in retirement age would like to stop working. 3. Determine the main factors affecting the likelihood of working after retirement age, among other things with reference to the COVID-19 crisis.
    Achievement Gaps in High-School Education among the Bedouin Society in the Negev
    Alexander Zablotsky, Dr. Yaniv Reingewertz
    2023

    The Objectives of the research were: 1. Map the major problems of high-school education in Bedouin society in the Negev, and the barriers and challenges facing both students and educators. 2. Assess the relationships between the inputs in education and the students’ background variables and the outputs of Bedouin secondary education in the Negev, to identify factors potentially affecting academic attainment.
    Brookdale Index of Individual Wellbeing: Preliminary Findings
    Adi Arad, Dr. Yaniv Reingewertz, Dr. Steven Laufer, Zohar Or Sharvit, Prof. Michael Hartal
    2023

    The overarching objective of this study was to create, for the first time in Israel, an individual-level, practical wellbeing index comprising a relatively short list of aspects, that can be used to assess the impact of intervention programs on individual wellbeing. The objectives of the research stage presented in this report are: (1) To compile a shortlist of aspects to be included in the wellbeing index; and (2) To determine the relative weight of each aspect.
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