Policy Impact

My research is aimed at practice as much as at the academic literature - informing funding-formula reform, advising governments, and shaping international policy frameworks. See also: Media.

International leadership

  • National Education Finance Academy (NEFA) - Board of Trustees (2024–2027 term); Distinguished Research & Practice Fellow (2014), for outstanding contribution to the research of education finance.
  • UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report - PEER initiative: reviewer for Israel’s “Financing for Equity” country profiles across pre-primary, primary/secondary, and higher education.
  • Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Economics and Finance of Education SIG: Founder and Chair of the research group. SIG history · current SIG page
  • Forum on Economic Aspects of Education Policy, Bar-Ilan University - Founder and Chair (2023–present)
  • Contributor to the World Bank’s Equity Report; my funding-formula research directly informed a reform by Israel’s Ministry of Education. Invited speaker at a US investment summit hosted by the Obama administration, and keynote speaker at China’s Belt and Road Initiative higher education forum.

National Consulting

Recent examples:

  • 2020 - Measuring Improvement in Educational Outcomes: Developing a Multi-Facet Approach, with the Israel Science Foundation’s Initiative for Applied Education Research.
  • 2019 - Developing a Diversity Index for Public Schools, with the Israel Science Foundation’s Initiative for Applied Education Research.

The Israeli Parliament (Knesset), Education Committee - invited testimony:

  • Education, Resource Allocation, and Poverty - October 19, 2010
  • Education Finance Policy, Equity, and Child Poverty - November 11, 2014

Also advisor to Israel’s Ministry of Education, Budget Department (2026).

International Consulting

Recent examples:

Talks & presentations

  • “Education as a Strategic Development for the State of Israel: Fiscal Decentralization, Research Findings” (חינוך כאסטרטגיה לפיתוח של מדינת ישראל: ביזור פיסקלי - ממצאי מחקר) - presentation to the Ministry of Education management board (ישיבת הנהלה), Jerusalem, Sep 22, 2026, with Dr. Ruth Meoded. Brings findings from three 2025 studies, funded by the Israel Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education Chief Scientist, on how Israeli local authorities add their own money to education. Across 250 municipalities (2014-2020), supplementary per-pupil spending climbs with socioeconomic cluster, reaching a 16-fold gap between clusters and 3-4 fold gaps among towns in the same cluster, and these gaps kept widening. A mixed-methods social network analysis of 45 local education directors shows four value-driven communities (needs-based funding, equity, excellence and choice, pedagogical innovation) that line up with socioeconomic status. The talk also looks at the fiscal resilience of local authorities and ends with policy recommendations: rethinking the government funding formula around a corrected differential index, balancing local autonomy with national equality of opportunity, and fixing distortions in local education funding. Download the slides (PDF) →
  • “Education as a Development Strategy for the State of Israel” (חינוך כאסטרטגיה לפיתוח של מדינת ישראל) - keynote at כנס עתיד החינוך (Future of Education Conference), Histadrut HaMorim & Amutat HaMorim, Aug 24, 2026. Argues for reframing education spending as national development infrastructure rather than a budget line to be trimmed, and lays out a four-part “Middle-Line Model” policy proposal: a real pay floor for all teachers, career-long development pathways, differentiated need-based resource allocation, and dedicated in-school professional workspace and time. Download the slides (PDF) →