Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2026

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

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 258, issue C, 2026

The unintended consequences of accountability: Quasi-experimental evidence from policing in Pakistan

Hamna Ahmed, Dareen Haider and Kate Vyborny

Access to credit reduces the value of insurance

Sonia Jaffe, Anup Malani and Julian Reif

Taxation and business entry: Evidence from the Polish self-employment “Flat” tax

Justyna Klejdysz and Tom Zawisza

Better late than never? Quantifying funding and liquidity effects of the PPP on pandemic-era employment recovery

Olga Gorbachev, Maria J. Luengo-Prado and J.Christina Wang

Intertemporal substitution in response to non-linear health insurance contracts

Katlyn Hettinger

Identifying tax-setting responses from local fiscal policy programs

Georg U. Thunecke, Valeria Merlo, Andreas Schanbacher and Georg Wamser

Can early public childcare reduce child penalties? Evidence from Germany

Lisa-Marie Duletzki and Nayeon Lim

The compliance effects of the automatic exchange of information: Evidence from the Swiss tax amnesty

Enea Baselgia

Almost fare free: Impact of a cheap public transport ticket on mobility patterns and train delays

Mario Liebensteiner, Jakob Losert, Sarah Necker, Florian Neumeier, Jörg Paetzold and Sebastian Wichert

Volume 257, issue C, 2026

Transfer price documentation rules and multinational firm behavior – Evidence from France

Sabine Laudage Teles, Nadine Riedel, Katharina Schmidt, Kristina Strohmaier, Johannes Voget and Sophia Wickel

Television, health, and happiness: A natural experiment in West Germany

Adrian Chadi and Manuel Hoffmann

Is the bar higher for female scholars? Evidence from career steps in economics

Niels Johannesen and Simon Muchardt

Does $1 matter? Health care demand response to a small copayment

Yunji Choi

Fiscal consequences of corporate tax avoidance

Katarzyna Bilicka, Evgeniya Dubinina and Petr Janský

Cronies in the courtroom: Political interference and judicial reforms

Hongbin Cai, Heng Chen, Yuyu Chen and Sisi Zhang

Local information, mismatch, and the cost of randomization in regulatory enforcement

Yile Xiao, Mengdi Liu, Miaomiao Liu and Bing Zhang

How do holistic wrap-around anti-poverty programs affect employment and individualized outcomes?

Javier Espinosa, William N. Evans, David C. Phillips and Timothy Spilde

What happens when women suddenly stop receiving cash transfers?

Nasir Iqbal, Amen Jalal, Mahreen Mahmud and Kate Vyborny

Is it possible to raise national happiness?

Alberto Prati and Claudia Senik

A prescription for knowledge: Patient information and generic substitution

Linn Hjalmarsson, Christian P.R. Schmid and Nicolas Schreiner

Curbing pretextual stops: Police efficiency and racial disparities

Louis-Philippe Beland, Jason Huh, Dongwoo Kim and Kyutaro Matsuzawa

The impact of working conditions on productivity: Evidence from the U.S. public defense system

Zhihan Liu and Amy C. Mahler

The disenrollment and labor market effects of SNAP work requirements on parents

Jason Cook and Chloe N. East

The effects of workers’ compensation experience rating on workers’ absences and employment

Pascale Lengagne

Entrepreneurship and top marginal tax rates

Zhigang Ge

Classification risk in health insurance: The interaction of genetics, prevention, and insurance

Julia Holzapfel

Corporate taxpayer responses to size-based enforcement and disclosure thresholds

Jason DeBacker, Erin Towery and Bibek Adhikari

Winters of discontent

Casey Wichman

Extreme temperatures, physical activity, and adaptation

Robert I. Harris

Elections that inspire: Effects of Black mayors on educational attainment

Jorge Ikawa, Clarice Martins, C. Sant’Anna, Pedro and Rogerio Santarrosa

Volume 256, issue C, 2026

Procurement with manipulation

Decio Coviello, Andrea Guglielmo, Clarissa Lotti and Giancarlo Spagnolo

Violent discipline and parental behavior: Short- and medium-term effects of digital parenting support to caregivers

Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Saravana Ravindran, Manisha Shah, Shawn Powers and Helen Baker-Henningham

Do the rich substitute political giving for charitable giving?

Julia Cagé and Malka Guillot

Do Black electoral victories shift racial bias? Evidence from close elections

Jung Sakong

Lagged-price reimbursement contracts: The impact of medicare Part B on pharmaceutical price growth

Angelique Acquatella, Keith Marzilli Ericson and Amanda Starc

Greening to grow: Evidence from environmental regulation and industrial firm productivity in China

Yangsiyu Lu and Jacquelyn Pless

Estimating intergenerational returns to medical care: New evidence from at-risk newborns

Damian Clarke, Nicolas Lillo Bustos and Kathya Tapia-Schythe

Chicken and egg: Electricity transmission and investment in renewable energy

Gaurav Doshi

Sick of your poor neighborhood? Quasi-experimental evidence on neighborhood effects on health

Linea Hasager and Mia Jørgensen

On the optimality of deferred public annuities

Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein

Externalities of climate adaptation in common-pool groundwater resources

Jeffrey Hadachek, Ellen M. Bruno, Nick Hagerty and Katrina Jessoe

Inference for welfare metrics

Vedant Vohra

Stability and resilience of alliances: A network approach

Arnold Polanski and Sebastian Cortes-Corrales

Volume 255, issue C, 2026

Race and redistribution in the United States: An experimental analysis

Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly

The unequal job security scars of displacement

Ana Figueiredo, Olivier Marie and Agnieszka Markiewicz

Weather and U.S. railways: risk, adaptation, and congestion

Xinming Du and Andrew Wilson

Emergency care centers, hospital performance and population health

Sonia Bhalotra, Letícia Nunes and Rudi Rocha

Asylum seekers and the rise in homelessness

Bruce D. Meyer, Angela Wyse and Douglas Williams

Human capital, unequal opportunities and productivity convergence: A global historical perspective, 1800–2100

Nitin Bharti, Amory Gethin, Thanasak Jenmana, Zhexun Mo, Thomas Piketty and Li Yang

Beyond lost earnings: Job displacement and the cost of commuting

Yige Duan, Oskar Jost, Ramona Jost and Holger Seibert

Political accountability and bureaucratic selection

Antonio León and Kelly Santos

Fiscal capacity and capital misallocation: the economic costs of tax evasion

Yu Liu and Xiaoxue Zhao

Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–2018

Leila Gautham and Nancy Folbre

Ranking for engagement: How social media algorithms fuel misinformation and polarization

Fabrizio Germano, Vicenç Gómez and Francesco Sobbrio

Climate coalitions with sophisticated policy makers

Sareh Vosooghi, Maria Arvaniti and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg