Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 249, issue C, 2025

Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns

Emmanuel Saez and David Seim

Does SNAP participation increase bulk purchases?

Hannah Wich and Katherine Harris-Lagoudakis

Climate and migration in the United States

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

VAT incidence in real VAT systems

Giacomo Brusco and Tejaswi Velayudhan

Vote and trade: An efficient mechanism for common-pool resource management with stock externalities

Hao Zhao and David Porter

Frictions in recovering unclaimed property: Evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment

Alejandro Zentner and Justin Holz

Discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from anti-Chinese sentiments in the United States

Gianandrea Lanzara, Sara Lazzaroni, Paolo Masella and Mara P. Squicciarini

Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States

Adam Bonica and Jacob M. Grumbach

Auctions for risk-averse non-profits

Jeffrey Carpenter, Joshua Foster and Peter Hans Matthews

Does black and blue matter? An experimental investigation of race, perceptions of police, and legal compliance

Mackenzie Alston and Emily Owens

Prices vs quantities with risk aversion

Edward E. Schlee

The effects of extortion and security device adoption on entrepreneurial entry and exit: Evidence from Guatemala

Alejandro Estefan and Romina Ordoñez

The value of private business in the United States

Richard Cole Campbell and Jacob A. Robbins

The undoing of economic sanctions: Evidence from the Russia–Ukraine conflict

Raymond Fisman, Giovanna Marcolongo and Meng Wu

Corruption stereotype and the unintended consequences of an anti-corruption campaign: evidence from the real estate sector in China

Hanming Fang and Rongjie Zhang

The pond dilemma with heterogeneous relative concerns

Paweł Gola

Volume 248, issue C, 2025

Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting

Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic and Alexander Willén

The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes: An analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program

Elizabeth Setren

Recovering voice through out-of-district donations

Sarah Waldfogel

In-kind government assistance and crowd-out of charitable services: Evidence from free school meals

Krista Ruffini, Orgül Öztürk and Pelin Pekgün

The impact of economic opportunity on criminal behavior: Evidence from the fracking boom

Brittany Street

The sectoral origins of heterogeneous spending multipliers

Hafedh Bouakez, Omar Rachedi and Emiliano Santoro

The full, persistent, and symmetric pass-through of a temporary VAT cut

Tiago Bernardino, Ricardo Duque Gabriel, João Quelhas and Márcia Silva-Pereira

Does the prospect of upward mobility undermine support for redistribution?

Don A. Moore, Rene Choudhari and Aileen Wu

Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming

Franca Glenzer, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Stefan Staubli

The employment effects of a means-tested guaranteed income policy

Timo Verlaat, Federico Todeschini and Xavier Ramos

Tournament-style political competition and local protectionism: Theory and evidence from China

Hanming Fang, Ming Li and Zenan Wu

The graduation part II: Graduate program graduation rates

Jeffrey Denning and Lesley J. Turner

Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills

Orazio P. Attanasio, Áureo de Paula and Alessandro Toppeta

Facilitating police reform: Body cameras, police-involved homicides, and law enforcement outcomes

Taeho Kim

Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities

Massimo Pulejo

Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh

Sadia Priyanka and Raisa Sara

How does medicaid managed care affect provider behavior? New evidence from spillovers on private health care

Ajin Lee

Provider payment incentives: Evidence from the U.S. hospice industry

Norma B. Coe and David A. Rosenkranz

To burn a slum: Urban land conflicts and the use of arson against Favelas

Rafael Pucci

Career expectations and outcomes: Evidence (on gender gaps) from the economics job market

Brooke Helppie-McFall, Eric Parolin and Basit Zafar

Impacts of home-care subsidies: Evidence from quasi-random assignment

Yuval Ofek-Shanny, Avner Strulov-Shlain and Dan Zeltzer

Dependent insurance coverage and parental job lock: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act

Hannah Bae, Katherine Meckel and Maggie Shi

Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India

Maulik Jagnani and Meera Mahadevan

Driving innovation? Carbon tax effects in the Swedish transport sector

Nils aus dem Moore, Johannes Brehm and Henri Gruhl

Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform

Kris De Jaegher, Michal Šoltés and Vítězslav Titl

Volume 247, issue C, 2025

Decentralized markets for electricity in low-income countries

Megan Lang

The value of group purchasing: Evidence from the U.S. hospital industry

Haizhen Lin and Yanhao Wang

From syringes to dishes: Improving food sufficiency through vaccination

Erkmen G. Aslim, Wei Fu, Erdal Tekin and Shijun You

The migrant penalty in Latin America: Experimental evidence from job recruiters

Raissa Fabregas and Wladimir Zanoni

Industrial automation and local public goods

Thomas Luke Spreen, Ziyuan Wang and Yang, Lang (Kate)

Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India

Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda and Nandini Agnihotri

Consumer sentiment towards Asians in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Jonathan Guryan and Kyung H. Park

The dynamics of cohort effect in politics

Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin

The influence of inheritances on wealth inequality in rich countries

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

Landmines: The local effects of demining

Mounu Prem, Miguel E. Purroy and Juan Vargas

Uniform brand-variant pricing and heterogeneous firm responses to excise taxes: Evidence from six U.S. cities

Danna Thomas

Racial inequality in unemployment insurance receipt

Elira Kuka and Bryan A. Stuart

State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data

Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Manita Rao and Sita Slavov

Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work

Grant Goehring

Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals

Dennis Byrski and Lucy Xiaolu Wang

The dynamic fiscal costs of outsourcing health insurance - evidence from Medicaid

Timothy J. Layton and Eran Politzer