Since my arrival in Israel from Princeton University in 1992, my research agenda has focused largely on family and social demography.
My formal training and research approach have been primarily in demography and my research has focused on several broad, overlapping areas:
(1) fertility and family change;
(2) marriage patterns and their social consequences;
(3) educational attainment and inequality; and
(4) gender roles;
(5) historical demography; and
(6) demography of Israel.
Within these four very general areas, my research has been empirical and quantitative in nature, and has utilized a variety of large, quantitative data sets for the purposes of analyzing the interrelationships between social and economic factors and demographic behavior, primarily, but not exclusively, in the population of Israel. Most recently, I am pursuing research on the implications for family and demographic change of men's changing roles in the home.