Gil S. Epstein

Research Fellow

Bar-Ilan University

Gil.Epstein@biu.ac.il

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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, 2013, Edward Elgar, ISBN 978-1-84542-629-3.

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