Gil Epstein - Curriculum Vitae#

Gill S. Epstein is a Professor of Economics and the Sir Isaac Wolfson Chair in Economics at the Department of Economics and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Gil has a BA, MA and PhD in Economics and statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

After completing his doctorate in Economics and Statistics in 1994, Gil S. Epstein spent two and a half years at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1996 he joined the Department of Economics at Bar-Ilan University. In 2000 he received Tenure and in 2007 he became full professor of Economics at Bar-Ilan University. Since becoming a Professor, he has served in a number of administrative positions at the university while continuing to publish in high quality journals.

His fields of interest are: Migration, Labor Economics, Population Economics, Political Economy, Public Choice, Public Policy.

Prof. Epstein has published 116 papers in leading Journals such as European Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Development Economics, Public Choice, Social Choice and Welfare and Journal of Public Economics.