Gil S. Epstein

Research Fellow

Bar-Ilan University

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Research Interests

Gil S. Epstein obtained his doctorate in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in 1994. After spending two and a half years at the University of Pennsylvania he joined the Department of Economics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Gil is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and is an Associate Editor for economics. In addition, he is a Research Fellow in IZA and a Research Fellow in CReAM.

Gil has published in Journals such as Management Science, Journal of Development Economics, European Economic Review, Social Choice and Welfare and Journal of Public Economics. His book on Endogenous Public Policy and Contests (2007)(coauthored with Shmuel Nitzan) has been published by Springer. Gil also edited together with Ira N. Gang a volume on Migration and Culture (2010) which was published by Emerald.

His current research interests include issues in Political Economy, Public Choice, Labor Economics, Migration and Public Policy.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7032
Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests
Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan
published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25(1), 48–60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7031
The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan
published in: Economics of Governance, 2013, 14(1), 77-105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7023
Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
Gil S. Epstein
published in: Economics and Business Letters, 2012, 1(4), 21-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6850
Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State
Gil S. Epstein
published in: Korean Economic Review, 2012, 28 (2), 117-136.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6837
Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration
Gil S. Epstein
published in: A. Constant and K. F. Zimmermann (eds): International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6831
Assimilation through Marriage
Gil S. Epstein, Renana Lindner Pomerantz
published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 191–203.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6796
Can an Ethnic Group Climb Up from the Bottom of the Ladder?
Gil S. Epstein, Erez Siniver
published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32(3), 2414-2441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5658
The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants
Gil S. Epstein, Alessandra Venturini
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 239-261
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5641
Migration, Transfers and Child Labor
Ralitza Dimova, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 735-747.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5158
Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (1-2), 88-93
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