Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 246, issue C, 2025

Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution

Aljosha Henkel, Ernst Fehr, Julien Senn and Thomas Epper

Avoidance Responses to the Wealth Tax

Mariona Mas-Montserrat, José María Durán-Cabré and Alejandro Esteller-Moré

The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy

Michael Smart, Matthew Kronberg, Josip Lesica and Huju Liu

Unemployment and tax design

Albert Jan Hummel

Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia

Jakub Lonsky

Two decades of top income shares in Honduras

Giselle Del Carmen, Santiago Garriga, Wilman Ponce and Thiago Scot

Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties

Bård Harstad and Anke S. Kessler

The structure of online social networks and social movements: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests

Matthias Flückiger and Markus Ludwig

Regulating the direction of innovation

Joshua S. Gans

New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves

John Chalmers, Olivia S. Mitchell, Jonathan Reuter and Mingli Zhong

Social networks and organizational helping behavior: Experimental evidence from the helping game

Hande Erkut and Ernesto Reuben

Volume 245, issue C, 2025

Debunking “fake news” on social media: Immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking and media literacy interventions

Lara Marie Berger, Anna Kerkhof, Felix Mindl and Johannes Münster

Health risk and the value of life

Daniel Bauer, Darius Lakdawalla and Julian Reif

Female labor supply and rural pension eligibility in Brazil

Gaurav Khanna, Margaret J. Lay, Stephanie Lee and Benjamin Thompson

Universal early childhood education and adolescent risky behavior

Michihito Ando, Hiroaki Mori and Shintaro Yamaguchi

Policy-advising competition and endogenous lobbies

Manuel Foerster and Daniel Habermacher

When do voters ‘rally around the flag’? The salience of political messages

Yatish Arya and Apurav Yash Bhatiya

Crowding in or crowding out? Evidence from discontinuity in the assignment of business R&D subsidies

Matěj Bajgar and Martin Srholec

Welfare in the volunteer’s dilemma

Marco Battaglini and Thomas Palfrey

Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration

Michael Levere, David Wittenburg and John T. Jones

Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆

Run Ge, Jialin Huang and Xinzheng Shi

Volume 244, issue C, 2025

Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment

Bobby W. Chung and Jian Zou

What do bequests in married couples with a surviving spouse tell us about bequest motives?

Sean Fahle

Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China

Wei Huang, Mi Luo, Yueping Song, Yiping Wang and Hantao Wu

Rubbing shoulders: Class segregation in daily activities

Maxim Massenkoff and Nathan Wilmers

Tax Avoidance through corporate accounting: Insights for corporate tax bases

Eric Heiser, Michael Love and Jacob Mortenson

Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?

Zachary Parolin, Lukas Lehner and Nathan Wilmers

Diminishing Target-based GDP Manipulation: Evidence from China

Binlei Gong, Yuhui Shen and Shuai Chen

An older college professor like me

Duha T. Altindag, Samuel Cole and Elif S. Filiz

Volume 243, issue C, 2025

Property taxation as compensation for local externalities: Evidence from large plants

Rebecca Fraenkel and Sam Krumholz

Effects of speed-schools in Niger

Anne Kielland, Andreas Kotsadam and Jing Liu

Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores

Michelle Marcus

Vote early and vote often? Detecting electoral fraud from the timing of 19th century elections

Francesco Ferlenga and Brian Knight

OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality

Nhu Nguyen, Ben Ost and Javaeria A. Qureshi

Campaign contributions and legislative behavior: Evidence from U.S. Congress

Alberto Parmigiani

(Not) Everyone can be a winner — The role of payoff interdependence for redistribution

Louis Strang and Sebastian Schaube

Recession experiences during early adulthood shape prosocial attitudes later in life

Jan Bietenbeck, Uwe Sunde and Petra Thiemann

Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation

Joanna Lahey and Marianne H. Wanamaker

Volume 242, issue C, 2025

Quantifying misallocation of public housing

Jennifer Buurma-Olsen, Hans R.A. Koster, Jos van Ommeren and Jort Sinninghe Damsté

Correlation in state and local tax changes

Scott Baker, Pawel Janas and Lorenz Kueng

Student development in teacher–student interaction: Evidence from a randomized experiment in online education

Chunchao Wang, Yao Wang, Aiping Xiao, Yaru Zhang and Hang Zou

Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona

Gerard Domènech-Arumí

The environmental cost of power outages: Evidence from Delhi

Yatang Lin and Dana Kassem

The big sell: Privatizing East Germany’s economy

Lukas Mergele, Moritz Hennicke and Moritz Lubczyk

Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand

Anna Bottasso, Massimiliano Bratti, Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti and Giovanni Sulis

How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms

Lucas Goodman, Katherine Lim, Bruce Sacerdote and Andrew Whitten

Between a rock and a hard place: The costs and benefits of expanded unemployment insurance benefits

Naser Hamdi, Ankit Kalda and David Sovich

Parents’ effective time endowment and divorce: Evidence from extended school days

María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo and Mariana Viollaz

Financial market exposure increases generalized trust

Saumitra Jha, Moses Shayo and Chagai M. Weiss

The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination

Manuel Bagues and Velichka Dimitrova

The effect of a ‘None of the above’ ballot paper option on voting behavior and election outcomes

Attila Ambrus, Ben Greiner and Anita Zednik

Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia

Jan Priebe and Sudarno Sumarto

The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American Incarceration during WWII

Daniel Grossman, Umair Khalil and Laura Panza

How in-person conversations shape political polarization: Quasi-experimental evidence from a nationwide initiative

Ximeng Fang, Sven Heuser and Lasse S. Stötzer

Learning the hard way: Conflicts, sanctions and military aid

Edoardo Grillo and Antonio Nicolò

Nothing for something: Marketing cancer drugs to physicians increases prescribing without improving mortality

Colleen Carey, Michael Daly and Jing Li

The impact of standardized disease-specific healthcare coverage

Felipe Menares and Pablo Muñoz

The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon

Francisco Costa, Dimitri Szerman and Juliano Assunção

The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria

Karim Bekhtiar

Housing Improvement and Crime

Umair Khalil and Viviane Sanfelice