Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 238, issue C, 2024

Effects of the expanded Child Tax Credit on employment outcomes

Elizabeth Ananat, Benjamin Glasner, Christal Hamilton, Zachary Parolin and Clemente Pignatti

Spillover effects of specialized high schools

Christine Mulhern, Shelby McNeill, Fatih Unlu, Brian Phillips, Julie A. Edmunds and Eric Grebing

The safety net and job loss: How much insurance do public programs provide?

Chloe N. East and David Simon

Coordinated selection of collective action: Wealthy-interest bias and inequality

Luca Corazzini, Christopher Cotton, Enrico Longo and Tommaso Reggiani

The McMansion effect: Positional externalities in U.S. suburbs

Clément S. Bellet

The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics

Christopher M. Whaley and Xiaoxi Zhao

School segregation in the presence of student sorting and cream-skimming: Evidence from a school voucher reform

Ana M. Gazmuri

Do bishops matter for politics? Evidence From Italy

Gianandrea Lanzara, Sara Lazzaroni, Paolo Masella and Mara P. Squicciarini

The political economy of coastal development

Pierre Magontier, Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

Organizational capacity and profit shifting

Katarzyna Bilicka and Daniela Scur

Public pensions and retirement: Evidence from the Railroad Retirement Act

Matthew Pesner

Optional (non-)filing and effective taxation

Tobias Hauck and Luisa Wallossek

Heard the news? Environmental policy and clean investments

Joëlle Noailly, Laura Nowzohour, Matthias van den Heuvel and Ireneu Pla

Norm-based feedback on household waste: Large-scale field experiments in two Swedish municipalities

Claes Ek and Magnus Söderberg

Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition

David Jacks, Krishna Pendakur, Hitoshi Shigeoka and Anthony Wray

Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors

Stanislav Avdeev, Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

Estimating intergenerational health transmission in Taiwan with administrative health records

Harrison Chang, Timothy Halliday, Ming-Jen Lin and Bhashkar Mazumder

Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion

Robert Breunig, Nathan Deutscher and Steven Hamilton

Sophistication about self-control

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

Brains versus brawn: Ordinal rank effects in job training

Alexander J. Chesney and Scott Carrell

Softening the blow: Job retention schemes in the pandemic

Jolan Mohimont, Maite de Sola Perea and Marie-Denise Zachary

No country for young people? The rise of anti-immigration politics in ageing societies

Valerio Dotti

The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen and Jakob Egholt Søgaard

The intergenerational (Im)mobility of immigrants

Pascal Achard

How do parole boards respond to large, societal shocks? Evidence from the 9/11 terrorist attacks

Brendon McConnell, Kegon Teng Kok Tan and Mariyana Zapryanova