Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2026

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

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Volume 255, issue C, 2026

Race and redistribution in the United States: An experimental analysis

Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly

The unequal job security scars of displacement

Ana Figueiredo, Olivier Marie and Agnieszka Markiewicz

Weather and U.S. railways: risk, adaptation, and congestion

Xinming Du and Andrew J. Wilson

Emergency care centers, hospital performance and population health

Sonia Bhalotra, Letícia Nunes and Rudi Rocha

Asylum seekers and the rise in homelessness

Bruce D. Meyer, Angela Wyse and Douglas Williams

Human capital, unequal opportunities and productivity convergence: A global historical perspective, 1800–2100

Nitin Bharti, Amory Gethin, Thanasak Mark Jenmana, Zhexun Mo, Thomas Piketty and Li Yang

Beyond lost earnings: Job displacement and the cost of commuting

Yige Duan, Oskar Jost, Ramona Jost and Holger Seibert

Political accountability and bureaucratic selection

Antonio León and Kelly Santos

Fiscal capacity and capital misallocation: the economic costs of tax evasion

Yu Liu and Xiaoxue Zhao

Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–2018

Leila Gautham and Nancy Folbre

Ranking for engagement: How social media algorithms fuel misinformation and polarization

Fabrizio Germano, Vicenç Gómez and Francesco Sobbrio

Climate coalitions with sophisticated policy makers

Sareh Vosooghi, Maria Arvaniti and Frederick van der Ploeg

Volume 254, issue C, 2026

Women’s labor market opportunities and equality in the household

Erik Grönqvist, Lena Hensvik, Yoko Okuyama and Anna Thoresson

Air pollution as comparative disadvantage

Shi-Ting He, Liugang Sheng and Peng Zhang

“Not ready” as a productive wake-up call: Do second chances improve human capital investments?

Thorbjørn Sejr Guul and Søren Albeck Nielsen

When protection becomes exploitation: The impact of firing costs on Naïve Employees

Florian Englmaier, Matthias Fahn, Ulrich Glogowsky and Marco A. Schwarz

Bad networks

Robert Akerlof, Richard Holden and Dj Thornton

Precautionary liquidity and worker decisions: Evidence from French employee saving plans

Marie Briere, James Poterba and Ariane Szafarz

Volume 253, issue C, 2026

The impact of subjective school ratings on principal compensation and turnover

Iftikhar Hussain, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Shqiponja Telhaj

Assessing the impact of grade retention: A cautionary tale of exclusion restriction violations

Jordan S. Berne, Brian A. Jacob, Christina Weiland and Katharine O. Strunk

The devil is in the details: Heterogeneous effects of the German minimum wage on working hours and minijobs

Mario Bossler, Ying Liang and Thorsten Schank

Time preferences and food choice

Andy Brownback, Alex Imas and Michael A. Kuhn

Protectionism, evasion and household welfare evidence from Nigeria’s import bans

Erhan Artuc, Guillermo Falcone, Guido Porto and Bob Rijkers

Optimal income tax deductions for mixed business and personal expenditures

Jacob Goldin, Sebastian Koehne and Nicholas Lawson

The consequences of wildfire liability for firm precaution: Evidence from power shutoffs in California

Christopher Malloy

Estimating the welfare cost of labor supply frictions

Katy Bergstrom, William Dodds, Nicholas Lacoste and Juan Rios

Social influence and carbon dioxide mitigation

Jayant Vivek Ganguli and Friederike Mengel

A tale of gold and blood: The consequences of market deregulation on local violence

Leila Pereira and Rafael Pucci

The long run effects of a teacher-focused school reform on student outcomes

Sarah R. Cohodes, Ozkan Eren and Orgul Ozturk

Volume 252, issue C, 2025

Combating cross-border externalities: Evidence from China’s inter-provincial ecological compensation initiatives

Shiyi Chen, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Huanhuan Wang and Jiaxin Xiong

School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940

David Card, Leah Clark, Ciprian Domnisoru and Lowell Taylor

Crowding out crowd support? Substitution between formal and informal insurance

Kyle Coombs

Corrigendum to “The influence of inheritances on wealth inequality in rich countries”. [J. Public Econ. 247 (2025) 105398]

Salvatore Morelli, Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino and Philippe Van Kerm

Accounting for the profits of multinational enterprises: Double counting and misattribution of foreign affiliate income

Jennifer Blouin and Leslie Robinson

Party politics, inter-jurisdictional cooperation and law enforcement: Evidence from Mexico

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ruben Durante and Emilio Gutierrez

Corrigendum to “Climate and migration in the United States”. [249 (2025) 105446]

Patrick Baylis, Prashant Bharadwaj, Jamie T. Mullins and Nick Obradovich

Regulating quasi-legal markets: Evidence from pain management clinic laws

Yuji Mizushima, David Powell, Rahi Abouk and Cheryl Damberg

Optimal regulation and investment incentives in financial networks

Matthew Jackson and Agathe Pernoud

The nonlinear effects of fiscal policy

Pedro Brinca, Miguel Faria-e-Castro, Miguel H. Ferreira, Hans Holter and Valter Nóbrega

The role of unrealized gains and borrowing in the taxation of the rich

Edward Fox and Zachary Liscow

Do gender board quotas matter for working mothers? Evidence from state-owned firms in Italy

Agata Maida and Andrea Weber

How substitutable are the classical and radical right?

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Carlos Sanz

Mortgages, Subways and Automobiles

Sumit Agarwal, Yeow Hwee Chua, Pulak Ghosh, Soumya Kanti Ghosh and Liuyang She

The impact of unexpected delays in periodic payments on consumption

Michael Gelman, Zachary Orlando and Dhiren Patki

Dynamics of evasion around tax thresholds: Evidence from Indian firms

Keshav Choudhary and Bhanu Gupta

Distributionally sensitive cost-benefit analysis

Robin Boadway and Michael Smart

Tax policy and business entry

Ian Sapollnik and Dustin Swonder

Laptops in the long run: Evidence from the one laptop per child program in rural Peru

Santiago Cueto, Diether W. Beuermann, Julian Cristia, Ofer Malamud and Francisco Pardo

Air pollution and workplace accidents: Evidence and implications

Alessandro Palma, Domenico Depalo and Gabriele Curci

Corrigendum to “Pass-through of subsidies to prices under limited competition: Evidence from Canada’s Nutrition North program”. [J. Publ. Econ. 225 (2023)]

Tracey Galloway and Nicholas Li