I am a professor (senior lecturer, tenured) at the Department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University. My research is in the areas of inequality, education, organizations, and research methodology.
Much of my work focuses on higher education, a pivotal arena for distributing societal resources and for public policy. My work explores how students navigate the complex settings of higher education and how the institutional arrangements they encounter shape their experiences and outcomes. I am particularly interested in understanding why these trajectories differ by students' gender, ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic status. I employ various research methodologies to study these patterns, including advanced quantitative techniques, counterfactual logic-driven simulations and causal inference, tools tailored for handling large datasets and text data, and computational methods grounded in social network analysis.
My work appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Demography, Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Social Problems, Social Science Research, and Sociological Science. You can read more about my ongoing projects here, and view my published work here. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my work, or would like to collaborate!
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My career path is a bit unusual. Shortly after completing my PhD in Sociology at Cornell University, I joined Meta, Inc. (when it was still called Facebook) as a Research Scientist on the Demography and Survey Science Team. At Meta, I used sociological knowledge and advanced methods to tackle business challenges. After two exciting years, I re-joined academia and assumed a faculty position at Tel Aviv University.
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During the summer of 2019 and the 2023-24 academic year, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University.
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