Details about Gil S. Epstein

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Homepage:	http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~epsteig
Phone:	+972 58 550 407
Postal address:	Department of Economics Bar-Ilan University Ranmat-Gan, 52900, Israel
Workplace:	Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University, (more information at EDIRC) Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), (more information at EDIRC) Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), University of London, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2009

Network Formations among Immigrants and Natives
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

2008

Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Also in Departmental Working Papers, Rutgers University, Department of Economics (2006)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2009)
Poverty and Governance: The Contest for Aid
Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2007

Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage
CReAM Discussion Paper Series, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2007)
The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

2006

Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties
Departmental Working Papers, Rutgers University, Department of Economics View citations
Also in Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (2006) View citations
Extremism within the Family
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Also in CReAM Discussion Paper Series, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London (2006)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Population Economics (2007)
Migrants, Ethnicity and Strategic Assimilation
Departmental Working Papers, Rutgers University, Department of Economics
Migration, effort, and voter sentiment towards temporary migration
CHILD Working Papers, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY
The Hope for Hysteresis in Foreign Aid
Departmental Working Papers, Rutgers University, Department of Economics
The Influence of Stocks and Flows on Migrants’ Location Choices
CEDI Discussion Paper Series, Centre for Economic Development and Institutions(CEDI), Brunel University View citations

2005

Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
See also Journal Article in Review of Development Economics (2006)
Lobbying and Compromise
CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich View citations
The Struggle over Migration Policy
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Population Economics (2006)

1998

Creating Illegal Immigrants
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
See also Journal Article in Journal of Population Economics (1999)
Herd Effects and Migration
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations
The King Never Emigrates: Political Culture and the Reluctant International Movement of People
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Journal Articles

2009

Good governance and good aid allocation
Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89, (1), 12-18
See also Working Paper (2008)
Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups with free riding
Public Choice, 2009, 139, (3), 357-369

2008

Child labor and temporary emigration
Economics Letters, 2008, 99, (3), 545-548
Efforts in two-sided contests
Public Choice, 2008, 136, (3), 283-291
Performance and prize decomposition in contests
Public Choice, 2008, 134, (3), 429-443

2007

Ambiguous political power and contest efforts
Public Choice, 2007, 132, (1), 113-123 View citations
Campaign resources and electoral success: Evidence from the 2002 French parliamentary elections
Public Choice, 2007, 131, (3), 469-489
Extremism within the family
Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20, (3), 707-715
See also Working Paper (2006)
Production, inventory and waiting time
Managerial and Decision Economics, 2007, 28, (6), 579-589 View citations
Understanding the development of fundamentalism
Public Choice, 2007, 132, (3), 257-271
See also Working Paper (2004)
WHO IS THE ENEMY?
Defence and Peace Economics, 2007, 18, (6), 469-484
See also Working Paper (2004)

2006

Contests, NGOs, and Decentralizing Aid
Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10, (2), 285-296 View citations
See also Working Paper (2005)
Effort and Performance in Public Policy Contests
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2006, 8, (2), 265-282 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
Reduced prizes and increased effort in contests
Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 26, (3), 447-453 View citations
The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10, (4), 652-665 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
The Politics of Randomness
Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27, (2), 423-433 View citations
The political economy of population economics
Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19, (2), 255-257
The struggle over migration policy
Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19, (4), 703-723 View citations
See also Working Paper (2005)

2005

Enclaves, language, and the location choice of migrants
Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18, (4), 649-662 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
Size and distribution of prizes and efforts in contests
Economics Bulletin, 2005, 8, (10), 1-10

2004

Contestable privatization
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 54, (3), 377-387
Strategic restraint in contests
European Economic Review, 2004, 48, (1), 201-210 View citations
See also Working Paper (2000)

2003

Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants
Review of Development Economics, 2003, 7, (1), 30-43 View citations
See also Working Paper (2000)
Lobbying contests with alternative instruments
Economics of Governance, 2003, 4, (1), 81-89 View citations
Political culture and monopoly price determination
Social Choice and Welfare, 2003, 21, (1), 1-19 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
The social cost of rent seeking when consumer opposition influences monopoly behavior
European Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 19, (1), 61-69 View citations
Unemployed immigrants and voter sentiment in the welfare state
Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87, (7-8), 1641-1655 View citations

2002

Asymmetry and Corrective Public Policy in Contests
Public Choice, 2002, 113, (1-2), 231-40 View citations
Stakes and Welfare in Rent-Seeking Contests
Public Choice, 2002, 112, (1-2), 137-42 View citations

2001

Lobbying and Concessions: Comparing Nash to Stackelberg Games
Public Choice, 2001, 109, (1-2), 175-81
Natural inequality, production and economic growth
Labour Economics, 2001, 8, (4), 463-473 View citations

2000

A Production Function with an Inferior Input
Manchester School, 2000, 68, (5), 503-15 View citations
Personal productivity and the likelihood of electoral success of political candidates
European Journal of Political Economy, 2000, 16, (1), 95-111 View citations

1999

Creating illegal immigrants
Journal of Population Economics, 1999, 12, (1), 3-21 View citations
See also Working Paper (1998)
Drug addiction and the economic rationalization of gun control
Economics Letters, 1999, 65, (1), 55-57
The King Never Emigrates
Review of Development Economics, 1999, 3, (2), 107-21 View citations

1998

Retail pricing and clearance sales: the multiple product case
Journal of Economics and Business, 1998, 50, (6), 551-563 View citations

1996

Changing a decision taken under incomplete informatio during the process of execution
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1996, 29, (2), 323-329
The extraction of natural resources from two sites under uncertainty
Economics Letters, 1996, 51, (3), 309-313 View citations