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Gil S. Epstein

Gil S. Epstein

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
32
Citations
3831
World Ranking
3477
National Ranking
28

Overview

Gil S. Epstein is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Their academic work spans various social science disciplines with a concentration on sociology, political science, safety research, economics, demography, and health professions. Their research output includes 15 publications within the broad field of social sciences.

The main subfields covered in Epstein's studies are sociology and political science, which constitute the largest portion of their work. Other notable subfields include safety research, economics and econometrics, demography, and general health professions.

The primary topics addressed in their research are migration and labor dynamics, migration in relation to ethnicity and the economy, experimental behavioral economics studies, poverty, education and child welfare, migration, refugees and integration, regional socio-economic development trends, and employment and welfare studies.

Epstein's frequent coauthors include Ira N. Gang with seven collaborations, Ilhom Abdulloev with three, Shirit Katav Herz with two, and single collaborations with Şule Akkoyunlu and Odelia Heizler.

Research by Epstein has appeared in a variety of publication venues. The most frequent is the SSRN Electronic Journal with four publications, followed by one each in Economics, the IZA Journal of Development and Migration, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and the Review of Development Economics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Epstein include:

  • "Migration and Forsaken Schooling in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan," 2020, IZA Journal of Development and Migration
  • "A Downside to the Brain Gain Story," 2020, Economics
  • "Herding, taxpayer's rent seeking and endemic corruption," 2023, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Social norms and child labor," 2022, Review of Development Economics
  • "Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

    Thomas K. Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S

    Thomas K. Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Managing Migration in the European Welfare State

    Herbert Brücker;Gil S. Epstein;Barry McCormick;Gilles Saint-Paul

  • The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

    Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Herd and Network Effects in Migration Decision-Making

    Gil S. Epstein

  • Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

    Gil S Epstein

  • Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

    Gil S. Epstein;Gil S. Epstein;Gil S. Epstein;Yosef Mealem;Shmuel Nitzan;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Creating illegal immigrants.

    Gil S. Epstein;Arye L. Hillman;Avi Weiss

  • Political culture and discrimination in contests

    Gil S. Epstein;Yosef Mealem;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Strategic restraint in contests

    Gil S Epstein;Gil S Epstein;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Endogenous Public Policy and Contests

    Gil S Epstein;Shmuel Nitzan

  • The Influence of Stocks and Flows on Migrants’ Location Choices

    Thomas Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Good governance and good aid allocation

    Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • The struggle over migration policy

    Gil S. Epstein;Gil S. Epstein;Shmuel Nitzan

  • The Politics of Randomness

    Gil S. Epstein;Gil S. Epstein;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Lobbying contests with alternative instruments

    Gil S. Epstein;Carsten Hefeker

  • The King Never Emigrates

    Gil S. Epstein;Arye L. Hillman;Heinrich W. Ursprung

  • What are Migration Networks

    Thomas K. Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Unemployed immigrants and voter sentiment in the welfare state

    Gil S. Epstein;Arye L. Hillman

  • Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups with free riding

    Gil S. Epstein;Yosef Mealem

  • Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application

    Joseph Deutsch;Gil S. Epstein;Tikva Lecker

  • Lobbying and Compromise

    Shmuel Nitzan;Shmuel Nitzan;Gil S. Epstein;Gil S. Epstein;Gil S. Epstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Ira N. Gang
Ira N. Gang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Shmuel Nitzan
Shmuel Nitzan Bar-Ilan University
Thomas K. Bauer
Thomas K. Bauer Ruhr University Bochum
Arye L. Hillman
Arye L. Hillman Bar-Ilan University
Hillel Rapoport
Hillel Rapoport Paris School of Economics
Gilles Saint-Paul
Gilles Saint-Paul Paris School of Economics

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