The Ben-Porath Fund was established by the donations of The Falk Institute, The Samuel Rothberg Fund and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in memory of Professor Yoram Ben-Porath, who served as Rector and later as President of the Hebrew University until his tragic death in October 1992.
The activities of the Ben-Porath Fund reflect his fields of interest : Education, Labor Force Participation and the Welfare System, Health, Immigration. Political Economy.
The activities include an annual Lecture in memory of Yoram, workshops and conferences on topics of interest to the Fund. Past activities include:
- Ben-Porath Annual Lecture by Professor Shachar Kariv, University of California, Berkeley, on: "The Distributional Preferences of Americans", The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 25, 2017. The Annual Ben-Porath Lecture 2017 - Youtube
- Ben-Porath Annual Lecture by Professor Joshua Angrist, MIT, on: "Radical Recipes for School Reform: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston", Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, March 21, 2016
- Ben-Porath Annual Lecture by Professor Ed Lazear, Stanford University, on: "Human Capital and Entrepreneurship", Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, September 16, 2014
- International conference on "New Developments in Human Capital",The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 20-22, 2012
- International conference on "Behavioral Economics",The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 21-23, 2010
- Ben-Porath Annual Lecture by Professor Peter Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on: "Economic Theory and Tax and Pension Policies", Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, June 7, 2010
- International conference on "Globalization and the Brain Drain - Theory, Evidence and Policy",The Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University, December 9-11, 2008
- 3 lectures by Professor Charles Manski, Northwestern University on "Identification for Prediction and Decision", The Hebrew University, December 2008
- Ben-Porath Annual Lecture by Professor Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics on: "Lessons from the Crisis for Financial Regulation", Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, June 23, 2009
- Ben-Porath annual Lecture By Professor Richard Freeman, Harvard University, on: "Schizophrenic Economics: the Struggle between Greed and Goodness in Market Capitalism ", The Hebrew University, May 27, 2008.
- Conference on the "Higher Education", Mishkenot Sha'ananim, May 21, 2007.