Rutgers University
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Professor of Economics


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203 New Jersey Hall
Department of Economics, School of Arts & Sciences
Rutgers University
75 Hamilton St
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248

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email: gang@rutgers.edu

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Updated June 2019, sort of


In Memoriam Robert C Stuart by Paul Gregory
Comparative Economic Studies (2015) 57, 361–364. doi:10.1057/ces.2015.14


Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1983
M.A., Cornell University, 1979 

B.A., (Art History, Political Economy) The Johns Hopkins University, 1977 

Certificate of International Affairs,  Bologna Center of the 
 School of Advanced International Studies, J.H.U., Bologna, Italy, 1976

A Selection of Recent Papers Oldies  but Goodies
¤Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang, (2018) Taxation & social protection under governance decentralisation, European Journal of Political Economy  OPEN ACCESS https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2018.08.007.
¤Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang, (2019) Inequality, good governance, and endemic corruption,  International Tax and Public Finance 26:999–1017  OPEN ACCESS  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-019-09542-z
FIra N. Gang, Rajesh Ray, Kunal Sen (2021) Finance, gender, & entrepreneurship: India’s informal sector firms. UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2020/144, Link to latest version, media coverage: (1) & (2) 		Extreme Group Behavior (Theory)
¤Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (2007) Who is the enemy?, Defence & Peace Economics  https://doi.org/10.1080/10242690701331485
 ¤Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (2007) The political economy of kosher wars, in Chiswick, Carmel U., Tikva Lecker, & Nava Kahana, eds. Jewish Society & Culture: An Economic Perspective  https://sakai.rutgers.edu/x/bcCpsc
¤Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (2007) Understanding the development of fundamentalism, Public Choice  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-007-9150-4
Beginning of  Organizing by Topic
Refugee Migration & Assimilation/Integration  (Empirical)
¤Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart (1997) What Difference Does a Country Make? Earnings by Soviets in the Soviet Union & in the United States Special Issue Quarterly Rev of Econ & Finance, edited by BR Chiswick https://doi.org/10.1016/S1062-9769(97)90072-7
¤Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart (2000) Does Background Matter? The Transmission of Human Capital from a Planned to a Market Economy International Migration Rev https://doi.org/10.1177%2F019791830003400207

Migration within the Soviet Union/Russia (Emprical)
¤Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart (1999) Mobility Where Mobility is Illegal: Internal Migration & City Growth in the Soviet Union Journal of Population Econ https://doi.org/10.1007/s001480050093
¤Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart (1996) Urban to Urban Migration:  Soviet Patterns & Post-Soviet Implications Comparative Econ Studies https://doi.org/10.1057/ces.1996.2
¤Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart (2002) Political Economy of Russian City Growth Econ Development & Cultural Change https://doi.org/10.1086/342265
¤Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart (2004) Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s IZA Discussion Paper No. 1151 https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/1151/russian-cities-in-transition-the-impact-of-market-forces-in-the-1990s