Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 241, issue C, 2025

When weather wounds workers: The impact of temperature on workplace accidents

Katharina Drescher and Benedikt Janzen

Industrialization and pollution: The long-term Impact of early-life exposure on human capital formation

Pan Chen

Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system

Tuuli Tähtinen

One hundred years of U.S. state taxation

Sarah Robinson and Alisa Tazhitdinova

The effect of feedback on student performance

Esteban M. Aucejo and Kelvin Wong

Where and why do politicians send pork? Evidence from central government transfers to French municipalities

Brice Fabre and Marc Sangnier

Declining r∗ in the US: The role of Social Security

Jacopo Bonchi and Giacomo Caracciolo

The effect of war on redistribution preferences

Alexei Zakharov and Philipp Chapkovski

Sea level rise risks, adaptation strategies, and real estate prices in Singapore

Sumit Agarwal, Yu Qin, Tien Foo Sing and Changwei Zhan

Volume 239, issue C, 2024

The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes

John C. Haltiwanger, Mark Kutzbach, Giordano Palloni, Henry O. Pollakowski, Matthew Staiger and Daniel Weinberg

How does parental divorce affect children’s long-term outcomes?

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Willingness to pay for crime reduction: The role of information in the Americas

Patricio Domínguez and Carlos Scartascini

Intrahousehold inequality and the joint taxation of household earnings

Cassiano B. Alves, Carlos E. da Costa, Felipe Lobel and Humberto Moreira

Payroll tax incidence: Evidence from unemployment insurance

Audrey Guo

How fiscally autonomous are local governments? An empirical test

Nicola Mauri

Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence

Sanna Bergvall

Do renewable energy investments create local jobs?

Natalia Fabra, Eduardo Gutiérrez Chacón, Aitor Lacuesta and Roberto Ramos

Listen to her: Gender differences in information diffusion within the household

Dietmar Fehr, Johanna Mollerstrom and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Do second chances pay off? Evidence from a natural experiment with low-achieving students

Aspasia Bizopoulou, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Ştefania Simion

The value of electricity reliability: Evidence from battery adoption

David Brown and Lucija Muehlenbachs

Should I Stay (in School) or Should I Go (to Work)

Lee Tyrrell-Hendry

Consumption tax cuts vs stimulus payments

Mehdi Bartal and Yvan Becard

Paving the road to re-election

Camille Boudot-Reddy and André Butler

The impact of monitoring on politicians’ attendance: Evidence from the Swiss Upper House

Katharina Hofer and Mariana Lopes da Fonseca

The price and employment response of firms to the introduction of minimum wages

Sebastian Link

Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes

Jason Cook

The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection: Evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia

Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan Munoz-Morales and Nolan G. Pope

The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits

Michael Levere, Jeffrey Hemmeter and David Wittenburg

The impossible trinity: Competitive markets, free entry, and efficiency

Halvor Mehlum, Gisle Natvik and Ragnar Torvik

The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective

Sebastian T. Braun and Jan Stuhler

The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation

Luca Merlino, Max Steinhardt and Liam Wren-Lewis

Specialised courts and the reporting of intimate partner violence: Evidence from Spain

Jorge García-Hombrados, Marta Martínez-Matute and Carmen Villa

Taxing the online haven: Impacts of the EU VAT reform on cross-border e-commerce

Chao Fang and Shuzhong Ma

Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment

Patricia Gil, Justin Holz, John List, Andrew Simon and Alejandro Zentner

Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance

Abhijeet Singh and Petter Berg

Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages

Qing Liu, Ruosi Lu, Stephen Teng Sun and Meng Zhang

Labor supply effects of a universal cash transfer

Jan Gromadzki

Uneven recessions and optimal firm subsidies

Caio Machado

Effect of a transfer shock on subnational debt: Micro evidence from Mexico

Mariela Dal Borgo

Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events

Christopher Holt and Joshua Linn

Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour

Richard Upward and Peter Wright

Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior

Zvonimir Bašić and Eugenio Verrina