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Gil S . Epstein and Eliakim Katz | 10 based on a tradeoff between preventing some sins rather than others and trace his views to certain basic social and rabbinic parameters . While Yaacov’s interest lay primarily in Jewish law, he was also interested in issues of inequality, Jewish marriage, macroeconomics, and rent - seeking . The rest of the chapters in this volume focus on these issues . Deutsch and Silber use an empirical approach to assess whether societal discontent acts as a motivator for participating in the political process . Using income distributions as an example, they provide a sophisticated econometric test to examine the hypothesis that demand for income redistribution is a significant factor in determining whether individuals are likely to vote, and find that this is indeed the case . Epstein, Gang, and Yun draw on models of ethnic assimilation to consider the issue of Jewish assimilation, by using samples from the US National Jewish Population Survey ( NJPS ) 2000 - 2001 . They show that Jewish women who marry Jewish men were found to benefit from an average of a 20 % higher household income than those who married non - Jewish men . This is a higher return than all other marriages involving at least one Jewish partner . Zilberfarb had written, with Rosenberg, several empirical papers on the Israeli economy . In this volume Zilberfarb considers the demand for money in Israel . He finds that there occurred a significant shift in the demand for money function at the beginning of the 21 st century, And, by estimating the new money - demand equation in Israel for the years 2000 – he is able to suggest that one possible explanation for the shift is the 2019, change in financial policy during the 1990 s, which, by attaining price stability, made foreign currency riskier and domestic money holdings less risky . Mealem, Nitzan, and Ui’s contribution concerns the theory of rent - seeking, a field to which Rosenberg had contributed a particularly well - known and highly influential paper . Specifically, Mealem et al . present a simple class of complete information lottery contests, where the designer
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