Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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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 240, issue C, 2024

Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence

Gabriel Jiménez, David Martinez-Miera and José-Luis Peydró

Laffer’s day in court: The revenue effects of criminal justice fees and fines

Samuel Norris and Evan K. Rose

Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy

Christopher Roth, Peter Schwardmann and Egon Tripodi

From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy

Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta, Matteo Pinna and Christopher S. Warshaw

All is not lost: Organized crime and social capital formation

Paolo Buonanno, Irene Ferrari and Alessandro Saia

Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones

Johannes Gallé, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel and Tobias Seidel

The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children

Stephen B. Billings, Mark Hoekstra and Gabriel Pons Rotger

The effects of lump-sum food benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic on spending, hardship, and health

Lauren Bauer, Krista Ruffini and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Volume 239, issue C, 2024

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

John 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