Naomi Friedman-Sokuler

Naomi is an assistant professor (tenure-track) in the Economics department at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her research focuses on the complex relationships between gender and ethnicity/race and economic outcomes. Specifically the ways social norms and institutions foster or inhibit processes of social mobility, inclusion and equality. She received her PhD from Ben Gurion University in 2017 for her dissertation using administrative data on Israeli students to empirically analyze gender streaming patterns in STEM matriculation electives, focusing on choice and its relationship to ethnicity and individual characteristics. Naomi is also a member of Masar Institute for Education, Nazareth, in the development of innovative and sustainable educational practices and theory, as tools for social inclusion and community empowerment.