Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2026

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

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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 C. 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?

Jesús Fernández-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

Volume 251, issue C, 2025

Heads up: Does air pollution cause workplace accidents?

Victor Lavy, Genia Rachkovski and Omry Yoresh

Fallout and health: Chernobyl’s legacy, early-life exposure, and protective behavior

Matilde Giaccherini and Joanna Kopinska

Who benefits from partnership flexibility?

Michael Love

Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages

Cici McNamara and Mayra Pineda-Torres

Paying moms to stay home: Short and long run effects on parents and children

Jonathan Gruber, Tuomas Kosonen and Kristiina Huttunen

The 2017 SALT cap reduced charitable contributions: Evidence from form 990 data

Sara LaLumia

A minimum-offer Lindahl mechanism for the provision of public goods

Nathaniel Neligh

An inverse-Ramsey tax rule

Luca Micheletto, Dylan T. Moore, Daniel Reck and Joel Slemrod

Patronage and pollution abatement

Yin Chu, J. Scott Holladay and Xian-Liang Tian

Volume 250, issue C, 2025

An efficiency case for equity-based school priorities

Damon Clark and Stephen Coate

Pricing for opportunity: The impact of spatially varying rent subsidies on housing voucher neighborhoods and take-up

Ingrid Gould Ellen, O’Regan, Katherine and Sarah Strochak

Political backlash to refugee settlement: Cultural and economic drivers

Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti, Mariapia Mendola and Giulia Tura

Support for renewable energy: The case of wind power

Robert Germeshausen, Sven Heim and Ulrich J. Wagner

New employer payroll taxes and entrepreneurship

Audrey Guo and Melanie Wallskog

Revealing 21% of GDP in hidden assets: Evidence from Argentina

Juliana Londoño-Vélez and Dario Tortarolo

Revisiting the unintended consequences of Ban the Box

Anne Burton and David N. Wasser

Labor supply response to windfall gains

Dimitris Georgarakos, Tullio Jappelli, Geoff Kenny and Luigi Pistaferri

Measuring small business dynamics and employment with private-sector real-time data

André Kurmann, Etienne Lalé and Lien Ta

Who benefits from pharmaceutical price controls? Evidence from India

Emma B. Dean

Pro-social preferences and the paradox of voting

Christine T. Bangum, Benny Geys and Rune J. Sørensen

Health effects of cash transfers: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment

Kari Hämäläinen, Miska Simanainen and Jouko Verho

Corrigendum to “Consumer sentiment towards Asians in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic”. [J. Public Econom. 247 (2025) 105396]

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Jonathan Guryan and Kyung H. Park

Economic activity and biodiversity in the United States

Yuanning Liang, Ivan Rudik and Eric Zou

When does corruption cause red tape? Bribe discrimination under asymmetric information

Martin Mattsson

Short-term mortality and healthcare utilization consequences of pension income receipt: Evidence from South Korea

Mimi Jeon, Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

Wealth, gifts, and estate planning at the end of life

David Sturrock, Stefan Groot and Jan Möhlmann