Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2026

Current editor(s): R. Boadway and J. Poterba

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Volume 261, issue C, 2026

Is inflation relief passed-through? Evidence from excise taxes

Michael D. Noel, Travis Roach and Madison Hill

Parental paternalism and patience

Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Matthias Sutter

Do social movements influence decision makers? Evidence from U.S. immigration courts

Yiannis Kountouris

Gun policy and the steel paradox

Katie Bollman, Benjamin Hansen, Edward Rubin and Garrett Stanford

Departmentalized instruction and elementary school effectiveness

Ben Backes, James Cowan and Dan Goldhaber

The incidence of rent subsidies: Evidence on rents, housing choices and supply

Essi Eerola, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Tuukka Saarimaa and Tuuli Vanhapelto

Women’s labor subsidy: Evidence from Chile

Maria Isidora Palma, Valentina Paredes and Daniela Paz

Behavioral responses to inheritance taxes: Evidence from Brazil

Gedeão Locks

Effective tax rates, firm size and the global minimum tax

Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Roel Dom and Camille Semelet

The impact of pension reforms and rapid aging on savings and labor supply: The case of China

Hui He, Lei Ning and Dongming Zhu

Do ultra-poor graduation programs build women’s resilience to weather shocks? Evidence from rural Ethiopia

Kalle Hirvonen, Daniel O. Gilligan, Jessica Leight, Heleene Tambet and Victor Villa

Implicit land taxes and their effect on the real economy

Daniel Murphy and Nathan Seegert

Agency incentives and disparate revenue collection: Evidence from Chicago parking tickets

Elizabeth Luh, Benjamin Pyle and James Reeves

The political benefits of the monoculture: Estimating the electoral effect of the market facilitation program

Robert Gulotty and Anton Strezhnev

Volume 260, issue C, 2026

Fiscal externalities of transaction taxes: Evidence from the Los Angeles mansion tax

Daniel Green, Vikram Jambulapati, Jack Liebersohn and Tejaswi Velayudhan

Noncredit workforce training, industry credentials, and labor market outcomes

Di Xu, Kelli A. Bird, Michael Cooper and Benjamin L. Castleman

Occupational Hazard? An analysis of birth outcomes among physician mothers

Anupam B. Jena, David Slusky and Lilly Springer

Do pensions enhance effort and selective retention?: Evidence from public schools

Michael Bates and Andrew C. Johnston

Combining part-time work and social benefits: Empirical evidence from Finland

Salla Kalin, Tomi Kyyrä and Tuomas Matikka

Estimating the consumption-smoothing value of Medicaid expansion: Evidence and limits

Anita Mukherjee, Daniel W. Sacks and Hoyoung Yoo

The effect of dating markets on maternal and neonatal health

Krzysztof Zaremba

Social observability and demand for transfers: Experimental evidence from a low income population

Marcel Fafchamps and Fadela Sadou Zouleya

Welfare debt relief: Impact on employment, benefit receipt, and mental health

Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, Heike Vethaak, Pierre Koning and Marike Knoef

Can electric vehicles aid the renewable transition? Evidence from a field experiment incentivizing midday charging

Andrea La Nauze, Lana Friesen, Kai Li Lim, Flavio Menezes, Lionel Page, Thara Philip and Jake Whitehead

The impact of third-party reporting on tax compliance: Evidence from gig workers

Andrew Garin, Emilie Jackson, Dmitri Koustas and Alicia Miller

Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students

Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville and Joy Wu

Real-time inequality

Thomas Blanchet, Léon Mouillet, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

Building opportunity: the intergenerational effects of Chilean school construction

Adrienne Lucas and Patrick McEwan

Cash transfer at birth reduces criminal activity of fathers and children

Sakshi Bhardwaj

Equity and efficiency when needs differ

Kristoffer Berg, Morten Haavarstein and Paolo G. Piacquadio

High-speed rail and China’s electric vehicle adoption miracle

Hanming Fang, Ming Li, Long Wang and Yang Yang

Human capital consequences of expanding the supply of higher education institutions in a developing country

Noemí Katzkowicz, Victor Lavy, Martina Querejeta and Tatiana Rosá

The impact of international conflict on cross-border commercial dispute resolution

Dmitrii Shchetinin and Stanislav Avdeev

Consumption stimulus with digital coupons: Heterogeneity and policy design

Ying Chen, Mingyi Li, Jiaming Mao and Jingyi Zhou

Consumption responses to a major minimum wage increase: Evidence from Spain

Ignacio González, Hector Sala and Pedro Trivin

Depression stigma

Christopher Roth, Peter Schwardmann and Egon Tripodi

Volume 259, issue C, 2026

Two-faced on facebook: Ad tailoring in U.S. house campaigns

Sarah Waldfogel

The employment effects of disability benefit reassessment

Anikó Bíró, Cecília Hornok, Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz and Ágota Scharle

Rate of return regulation revisited

Karl Dunkle Werner and Stephen Jarvis

Using price incentives to bound welfare from pay as you go solar electricity

Megan Lang

What did we learn from the North American Income Maintenance Experiments? New data and evidence on two-parent families

Chris Riddell and W. Craig Riddell

The effect of emergency financial assistance on employment and earnings

Daniel Hungerman, David Phillips, Kevin Rinz and James Sullivan

Supercompliers

Matthew L. Comey, Amanda R. Eng, Pauline Leung and Zhuan Pei

Legal representation in disability claims

Hilary Hoynes, Nicole Maestas and Alexander Strand

A model of China’s economic vertical structure

Xi Li, Xuewen Liu, Zhikun Lu and Yong Wang

How do bureaucrats respond to hybrid incentive contract? Evidence from China’s air pollution controls

Guangyu Cao, Xi Weng, Mingwei Xu and Li-An Zhou

From housing gains to pension losses: Micro-macro integration to reveal wealth inequality dynamics in Chile

Bastián Castro Nofal, Ignacio Flores and Pablo Gutiérrez Cubillos

Ballots, budgets and bricks: Brexit and the polarisation of individual economic behaviours

Pei Kuang, Davide Luca and Zhiwu Wei

Gender equality through turnover: Quasi-experimental evidence from term limit reforms in Italy

Carolina Kansikas and Manuel Bagues

National content and local political consequences: Evidence from public and private television

Mathias Bühler and Andrew Dickens

Distributional tax analysis in theory and practice: Harberger meets Diamond-Mirrlees

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

The (fiscal) dividend of infrastructure: Roads and revenues in Rwanda

Abdou Musonera, Aimable Nsabimana and Daniel Overbeck

Formalizing microentrepreneurs through targeted tax systems: Evidence from Brazil

Alison Farias and Roberto Hsu Rocha

Choosing (not) to choose: Uncovering intrinsic preferences for choice autonomy

Jana Freundt, Holger Herz and Leander Kopp

Drain the swamp: A theory of anti-elite populism

Gabriele Gratton and Barton E. Lee

A quantitative urban model for transport appraisal

Daniel Hörcher and Daniel J. Graham