News

Housing costs have exacerbated income equality in Germany

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and co-authors finds that changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s. The research was covered on the German press.

Press Release

Immigrant and disadvantaged children benefit most from early childcare

Attending universal childcare from age three significantly improves the school readiness of children from immigrant and disadvantaged family backgrounds.

The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

BBC 2

"I was quite prepared... to use the cover of the statistician's analysis": Former home secretary David Blunkett and Prof Dustmann on the 2003 report on EU accession

Brexit

BBC Three Counties

Christian Dustmann discussing Theresa May's comments on EU workers 'jumping the queue' on BBC Three Counties.

External Research Fellow

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Email: zeckstein@idc.ac.il

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Zvi Eckstein

Professor Zvi Eckstein is a full professor of economics at Tel Aviv University and the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1981. He has published papers in all leading economic journals such as Econometirca, ReStud., AER, JPE, etc. He has taught at Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University and Boston University. Professor Eckstein was the Head of the Eitan Berglas School of Economics and he was the chairman of the Investment Committee and outside director at the Provident Funds of Bank Leumi of Israel Ltd. He is currently an editor of the European Economic Review, Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the Center for Economic Policy Research, a research associate at the IZA and a consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Zvi Eckstein joined CReAM as an external fellow in May 2006.