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. 1711
Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid
Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (2), 285-296
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1533
The Struggle over Migration Policy
Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 703-723
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1244
The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (4), 652 - 665
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1237
Who Is the Enemy?
Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2007, 18 (6), 469–484
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1232
Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Foders, Federico and Langhammer, Rolf J. (eds), Labor Mobility and the World Economy. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, 85-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1227
Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
Ira N. Gang, Gil S. Epstein
published in: Public Choice, 2007, 132 (3-4), 257-271
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1023
Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye
Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 558
Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 649–662
IZA Discussion Paper No. 551
Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 199-229
IZA Discussion Paper No. 547
Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making
Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 540
High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population
Gil S. Epstein, Astrid Kunze, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56 (3), 332–352
IZA Discussion Paper No. 445
Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate
Gil S. Epstein
published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.): Migration and Culture, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 25-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 435
Perceived Income, Promotion and Incentive Effects
Gil S. Epstein, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27 (2), 104-125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 302
A Theory of Immigration Amnesties
Gil S. Epstein, Avi Weiss
published as "The Why, When and How of Immigration Amnesties" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 285-316
IZA Discussion Paper No. 275
Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application
Gil S. Epstein, Tikva Lecker
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 217-234
IZA Discussion Paper No. 204
Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants
Gil S. Epstein
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2003, 7 (1), 30-43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 200
What are Migration Networks?
Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
revised version published as 'Measuring ethnic linkages among migrants' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 56-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 168
Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers
Gil S. Epstein, Arye L. Hillman
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (7-8), 1641-1655
IZA Discussion Paper No. 73
The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage
Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan
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