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Articles in Refereed Journals

Kaplan, A., Herbst-Debby, A., Endeweld, M. & Achouche, N. (2024) Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(4), 588-608.

Herbst-Debby, A., Kaplan, A.  & Endeweld, M. (2023). Economic Resources After Divorce: Family Income and Housing in the Wake of Welfare Reform. The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy: A Life-Course Perspective (p. 869-890) Co-edited by Daly, M., Pfau-Effinger, B., Gilbert, N. & Besharov, D., Oxford University Press.

Herbst-Debby, A Kaplan, A. Endeweld, M. & Achouche, N. (2023). Adolescent Employment, Family Income and Parental Divorce. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 100772.

Herbst-Debby, A. (2023). What’s Your Pension Story? Women’s Perspectives during the
COVID-19 Pandemic on Their Old-Age Pension Status, Past and Present. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(10), 5912.

Herbst-Debby, A. & Achouche, N. (2023) Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts. Women's Studies International Forum. Vol. 100, p. 102814

Herbst-Debby, A. Kaplan, A. & Endeweld, M. (2023) Working their way to young adulthood: Labor market outcomes of working in adolescence.  YOUNG, 32(1), 78-99.‏

Kaplan, A., Herbst-Debby, A., Endeweld, M. & Achouche, N. (2023) Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment, Journal of Youth Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2022.2156780

Herbst-Debby, A. Majadly, B. and Barzilai-Lumbroso, R. (2022). Journey to liberation: Israeli-Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(14), 2749-2769.‏

Soskolne, V., & Herbst-Debby, A. (2022). Health and psychological distress implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for single mothers in Israel. Journal of Family Studies, 1-17.‏

Herbst-Debby, A (2022). (De)Legitimization of Single Mothers’ Welfare Rights: United States, Britain and Israel. Journal of European Social Policy. 32(3) 302–316.

Endeweld, M., Herbst-Debby, A., & Kaplan, A. (2022). Do the Privileged Always Win? Economic Consequences of Divorce by Income and Gender Groups. Social Indicators Research, 159(1), 77-100.

Meler, T., Herbst-Debby, A., & Sabbah Karkabi, M. (2022). Economic Abuse of Palestinian Mothers in Israel: The Case of Participants in a Welfare-to-Work Program. Violence Against Women, 28(9), 2122-2144.

Herbst-Debby, A., Karkabi-Sabbah, M. & Meler, T. (2022). Palestinian mothers in Israel: Can a welfare-to-work program enhance their social capital? Current Sociology. 70(1) 42-60.

Herbst-Debby, A., Endeweld, M., & Kaplan, A. (2021). Differentiated routes to vulnerability: Marital status, children, gender and poverty. Advances in Life Course Research, 100418.‏

Herbst-Debby, Anat & Orly Benjamin (2020). Changing Gendered Moral Rationalities among Israeli Welfare-to-Work Participants. Community, Work and Family. 23(1), 44-61.

Herbst-Debby, A., Meler, T., & Karkabi-Sabbah, M. (2019). 'Deserving and ‘responsible’ motherhood': Palestinian motherhood in Israel and welfare-to-work programs. Society and welfare, 39(1), 49-79. (Hebrew).

Herbst-Debby, A. (2019). The Economically Responsible Single Mom who Sees to her Future: Welfare-to-Work Programs and Pension Savings. Journal of Social Policy. Journal of Social Policy, 48(3), 489-510.

Herbst-Debby, A. (2019). The ‘Proper and moral’ single mother and ‘welfare to work’ Social Security 107, 79-108. (Hebrew).

Herbst-Debby, A. (2018). Doing Good Motherhood: Creating Their own Responsible Single Mother Model. Women’s Studies International Forum, 69, 151-158.

Herbst-Debby, A. & Kaplan, A. (2018). Love in Times of Crisis: Gendered Aspects of Education, Employment, and Divorce. Megamot (Hebrew).

Herbst-Debby, A. & Kaplan, A. (2018). Fragile Autonomy: The Implications of Divorce on Mothers’ Earnings Following Welfare Policy Changes. Social Security Journal (Hebrew).

Herbst-Debby, A. & Benjamin, O. (2018). Low-income Mothers in an Israeli Welfare-to-Work Program: Symbolic Violence and its Limitations. International Sociology, 33(1): 45-63.

Kaplan, A. & Herbst-Debby, A. (2018). Fragile Employment, Liquid Love: Employment Instability and Divorce in Israel. Population and Policy Review, 37(1): 1-31.

Kaplan, A. & Herbst-Debby, A. (2017). Mixed-Ethnicity Marriages and Marital Dissolution in Israel. Journal of Israeli History, 36(2), 291-312.

Herbst, A. & Kaplan, A. (2016). Mothers’ Post-divorce Earnings in the Context of Welfare Policy Change. International Journal of Social Welfare, 25 (3): 222-234.

Herbst, A. & Benjamin, O. (2016). Between Activation and Supporting Women: Alternative Operation of Welfare-to-Work Programs. Journal of Social Policy and Administration, 50 (5): 501-519.

Kaplan, A. & Herbst, A. (2015) Stratified Patterns of Divorce: Earnings, Education and Gender. Demographic Research. 32: 949-982.

Herbst, A. (2013). The Legitimacy of Single Mothers in Israel
Examined through Five Circles of Discourse. Israel Studies Review. 28 (2): 228-246.

Herbst, A. (2013). Welfare Mom as Warrior Mom: Discourse in the 2003 Single Mothers’ Protest in Israel. Journal of Social Policy, 42 (1): 129-145.

Herbst, A. (2012). Discourse of Need: The Case of Child Support (Payment Assurance). Women’s Studies International Forum. 35 (4) 214-222.

Herbst, A. & Gez, Y. (2012). From “Crime of Passion” to “Love Does Not Kill”: The Murder of Einav Rogel and the Role of Women’s Organizations in the Construction of Violence against Women in Israel. Israel Studies,17 (2): 129-155.

Herbst, A. & Benjamin, O. (2012). It was a Zionist Act: Nationalism, Citizenship and Welfare Policy in Israeli Feminist Mobilization. Women’s Studies International Forum, 35: 29-37.

Herbst, A. (2011). This is the State Defending the Woman & Offspring Abandoned and Neglected by the Husband-Father. In: Margalit Shilo & Gideon Katz (eds.), Studies of the Re-emerging State, special issue, 651-681 (Hebrew).

Herbst, A. (2009) “We Support the Single Parent Families Law, Poor Things”: The Single Parent Family Law – A Survey. Social Security, 80: 25-58 (Hebrew).

The article appeared again in the course reader: Welfare State: Citizenship, Rights and Division of Resources (2011). Ra’anana: Open University.

It also appeared in the book and course: Social Security (2011). Ra’anana: Open University.

Articles in Books

Herbst-Debby, A., Kaplan, A. &  Endeweld, M.  (Forthcoming). Economic Resources After Divorce: Family Income and Housing in the Wake of Welfare Reform.  International Handbook of Family Policy:  A Life-Course Perspective Oxford University Press.  Co-edited by Mary Daly, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Neil Gilbert, and Douglas Besharov. 

Kaplan, A., Endeweld, M., & Herbst-Debby, A. (2020). The More the Merrier? The Effect of Children on Divorce in a Pronatalist Society. In Divorce in Europe (pp. 123-143). Springer, Cham.‏

Herbst-Debby, A. & Foigel-Bijoui, S. (2020). Building spaces of care, compassion, and Westernization: Maternalism and the establishment of the social work profession in the Yishuv in Palestine, 1912-1948. In: John Gal & Roni Holler (Eds.), Not Charity but Justice: Chapters in the Development of Social Work in Israel. Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Hebrew).

Herbst, A. (2010). The National Motherly Discourse versus the Leeching Discourse: The Protest of the Single Mothers, 2003. In: Chana Katz & Erez Tzfadia (Eds.), Abandoning State, Supervising State: Social Policy in Israel, 1985-2008 (pp. 211-231). The Western Negev: Sapir Academic College (Hebrew).

Swirski, S., Kraus, V., Konor-Atias, E. & Herbst, A. (2007). Single Mothers in Israel. In: Matat Adar Bonis (Ed.), Families: A Sociological and Anthropological Perspective (pp. 208-237). Ra’anana: Open University (Hebrew).

Other Publications

Herbst-Deby, E., Kaplan, Endeweld, M. (2021). Mobilization of adolescents and young adults in the context of family changes. Jerusalem: National Insurance.

Herbst, Anat (2015). Women of Valor: Program to Promote the Employment of Women. Research Report. Jerusalem: The National Insurance Institute.

Swirski, Shlomo, Vered Kraus, Etty Konor-Attias & Anat Herbst (2003). Solo Mothers in Israel. Tel Aviv: Adva Center.

Swirski, Barbara, & Anat Herbst (2003). Gender Aspects in Allocations for the Handicapped. Tel Aviv: Adva Center. (Hebrew).