Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2026

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

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Volume 262, issue C, 2026

Impacts of childhood disability on family: Labor, marriage, fertility, and depression

Kuan-Ming Chen, Ming-Jen Lin and Wei-Lun Lo

The impact of election fraud on government performance

Abigail Peralta

Green spills: Peer effects in pro-environmental behaviors

Patrick Bigler and Benedikt Janzen

Minimum wage laws and job search

Vitor Melo, Christopher M. Kaiser, David Neumark, Liya Palagashvili and Michael D. Farren

Basic income versus fairness: redistribution with inactive agents

Antoine Germain

Friends with drugs: The role of social networks in the opioid epidemic

Kai Maeckle and Stefan Ruenzi

Information manipulation and repression: Theory and evidence from the COVID-19 response in Russia

Natalia Lamberova and Konstantin Sonin

Non-monetary incentives and bureaucratic performance: Evidence from U.S. courts

Jonathan B. Petkun

The costs of environmental land use regulation

Maxwell Tabarrok

Wage spillovers across sectors: Evidence from a localized public-sector wage cut

Tsuyoshi Goto and Atsushi Yamagishi

Benefit-based taxation can include substantial redistribution

Jo Ellery and Matthew Weinzierl

Fairness perceptions of redistribution and predistribution

Krishna Srinivasan, Justin Valasek and Weijia Wang

How to fund nonprofits?

Eddy Zanoutene

Do prosecutor and defendant race pairings matter? Evidence from random assignment

CarlyWill Sloan

Do information and communication technologies empower female workers? Evidence from Vietnam

Heiwai Tang, Yao Wang, Victoria Wenxin Xie and Natalie Chun

From prison peers to co-offenders

Julian Vedeler Johnsen and Laura Khoury

The role of escape clauses: Firm response to thin capitalization rules

Martin E. Andresen and Lars Thorvaldsen

Escaping temporary traps? Evidence from age-based incentives to permanent employment

Ferran Elias and Henry Redondo

Safety net payment digitization and participant outcomes: Evidence from the WIC EBT transition

Charlotte Ambrozek, Timothy K.M. Beatty and Wenjie Zhan

Electoral results affect beliefs about the past: Evidence from Chile

Nicolás Ajzenman, Patricio Dominguez and Lucas M. Novaes

Impacts of a partial welfare reform on targeting and political competition

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria

The effects of education on corruption: Evidence from Vietnam’s university expansion

Edmund J. Malesky, Martin Mattsson, Khoa Vu and Liaoliang Zhang

The accuracy of jobseekers’ wage expectations

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Aiko Schmeißer and Sophie Wagner

Language and identity: Evidence from a schooling reform

Eric Avis

Mortality regressivity and pension design

Youngsoo Jang, Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm

Immigration enforcement and safety net participation in mixed-status households

Jaeyeon Shin

Irreversible investment in divided times: Complementarity and public good provision

Ying Chen, Liuchun Deng, Minako Fujio and M. Ali Khan

Top income taxation: Efficiency, social welfare and the Laffer curve

Jacob Lundberg

Election results and democratic discontent: Expectations, extremism, and democratic values in post-election Brazil

Matteo F. Ferroni

Smart power limits: Designing shortage mechanisms for extreme events

Mar Reguant and Mayra Wagner

Do marriage tax penalties cause delayed marriage reporting?

William Gorman and David Splinter

Standardized test scores and academic performance at a public university system

Theodore Joyce, Mina Afrouzi, Sarah Truelsch, Kerstin Gentsch and Kyle Du

‘Returning brains’: Tax incentives, migration, and scientific productivity

Pier Paolo Creanza

Corrigendum to “The effects of education on corruption: Evidence from Vietnam’s university expansion” [J. Public Econ. 262 (2026) 105763]

Edmund J. Malesky, Martin Mattsson, Khoa Vu and Liaoliang Zhang

Prosecutor politics: The impact of election cycles on criminal sentencing in the era of rising incarceration

Chika O. Okafor

Feeling rich or looking rich? Self-perceived vs socially-perceived relative income

Nicolas Bottan, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Hitoshi Shigeoka and Katsunori Yamada

Volume 261, issue C, 2026

Is inflation relief passed-through? Evidence from excise taxes

Michael D. Noel, Travis Roach and Madison Hill

Parental paternalism and patience

Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Matthias Sutter

Do social movements influence decision makers? Evidence from U.S. immigration courts

Yiannis Kountouris

Gun policy and the steel paradox

Katie Bollman, Benjamin Hansen, Edward Rubin and Garrett Stanford

Departmentalized instruction and elementary school effectiveness

Ben Backes, James Cowan and Dan Goldhaber

The incidence of rent subsidies: Evidence on rents, housing choices and supply

Essi Eerola, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Tuukka Saarimaa and Tuuli Vanhapelto

Women’s labor subsidy: Evidence from Chile

Maria Isidora Palma, Valentina Paredes and Daniela Paz

Behavioral responses to inheritance taxes: Evidence from Brazil

Gedeão Locks

Effective tax rates, firm size and the global minimum tax

Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Roel Dom and Camille Semelet

The impact of pension reforms and rapid aging on savings and labor supply: The case of China

Hui He, Lei Ning and Dongming Zhu

Do ultra-poor graduation programs build women’s resilience to weather shocks? Evidence from rural Ethiopia

Kalle Hirvonen, Daniel O. Gilligan, Jessica Leight, Heleene Tambet and Victor Villa

Implicit land taxes and their effect on the real economy

Daniel Murphy and Nathan Seegert

Agency incentives and disparate revenue collection: Evidence from Chicago parking tickets

Elizabeth Luh, Benjamin Pyle and James Reeves

The political benefits of the monoculture: Estimating the electoral effect of the market facilitation program

Robert Gulotty and Anton Strezhnev