Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 200, issue C, 2021

Trigger-happy or precisionist? On demand for monitoring in peer-based public goods provision

Andreas Nicklisch, Louis Putterman and Christian Thöni

Medicaid and provider supply

Jason Huh

Long-run pollution exposure and mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program

Alan I. Barreca, Matthew Neidell and Nicholas Sanders

Optimal taxation with multiple dimensions of heterogeneity

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

A social norm nudge to save more: A field experiment at a retail bank

Robert Dur, Dimitry Fleming, Marten van Garderen and Max van Lent

Efficient policy interventions in an epidemic

Alberto Bisin and Piero Gottardi

Attribution bias in major decisions: Evidence from the United States Military Academy

Kareem Haggag, Richard W. Patterson, Nolan Pope and Aaron Feudo

Ethnic geography: Measurement and evidence

Roland Hodler, Michele Valsecchi and Alberto Vesperoni

Whether, when and how to extend unemployment benefits: Theory and application to COVID-19

Kurt Mitman and Stanislav Rabinovich

More opportunity, more cooperation? The behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth

Christina Felfe, Martin Kocher, Helmut Rainer, Judith Saurer and Thomas Siedler

First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections

Dean Dulay and Laurence Anthony Go

Contagion at work: Occupations, industries and human contact

Anna Houštecká, Dongya Koh and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis

Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort

Gary W. Cox, Jon Fiva, Daniel M. Smith and Rune J. Sørensen

A note on optimal taxation, status consumption, and unemployment

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

Hysteresis from employer subsidies

Emmanuel Saez, Benjamin Schoefer and David Seim

Sharing the pie: An analysis of undernutrition and individual consumption in Bangladesh

Caitlin Brown, Rossella Calvi and Jacob Penglase

The incidence of extreme economic stress: Evidence from utility disconnections

Steve Cicala

The impact of abortion on crime and crime-related behavior

Randi Hjalmarsson, Andreea Mitrut and Cristian Pop-Eleches

When carbon emission trading meets a regulated industry: Evidence from the electricity sector of China

Jing Cao, Mun Ho, Rong Ma and Fei Teng

The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation

Ioana Marinescu, Daphné Skandalis and Daniel Zhao

Can payroll tax cuts help firms during recessions?

Youssef Benzarti and Jarkko Harju

Volume 199, issue C, 2021

Large learning gains in pockets of extreme poverty: Experimental evidence from Guinea Bissau

Ila Fazzio, Alex Eble, Robin L. Lumsdaine, Peter Boone, Baboucarr Bouy, Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh, Chitra Jayanty, Simon Johnson and Ana Filipa Silva

The effect of course shutouts on community college students: Evidence from waitlist cutoffs

Silvia Robles, Max Gross and Robert Fairlie

The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Alexander Strand

Who pays for and who benefits from minimum wage increases? Evidence from Israeli tax data on business owners and workers

Lev Drucker, Katya Mazirov and David Neumark

Quid pro quo? Government-firm relationships in China

Yu-Hsiang Lei

Can judiciaries constrain executive power? Evidence from judicial reforms

Matthieu Chemin

The informational value of environmental taxes

Stefan Ambec and Jessica Coria

The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences

Jing Liu, Monica Lee and Seth Gershenson

Volume 198, issue C, 2021

Home prices, fertility, and early-life health outcomes

N. Meltem Daysal, Michael Lovenheim, Nikolaj Siersbæk and David Wasser

Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubin

Decentralization of wage determination: Evidence from a national teacher reform

Alexander Willén

Time inconsistent charitable giving

James Andreoni and Marta Serra-Garcia

Women’s representation in politics: The effect of electoral systems

Martin Gonzalez-Eiras and Carlos Sanz

Sharing the burden of subsidization: Evidence on pass-through from a subsidy revision in Medicare Part D

Colleen Carey

The dynamics of linking permit markets

Katinka Holtsmark and Kristoffer Midttømme

Optimal intergenerational transfers: Public education and pensions

Monisankar Bishnu, Shresth Garg, Tishara Garg and Tridip Ray

Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Giacomo Corneo and Guido Neidhöfer

Supply-side optimal capital taxation with endogenous wage inequality

Xiaoyong Cui, Liutang Gong and Wenjian Li

Public good provision and property tax compliance: Evidence from a natural experiment

Paul Carrillo, Edgar Castro and Carlos Scartascini

Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information

Patrick Schmitz

Knowledge spillovers, peer effects, and telecommuting: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS-CoV-2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany

Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Lipfert and Nico Pestel

Volume 197, issue C, 2021

Diversity and team performance in a Kenyan organization☆

Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri

Understanding the elasticity of taxable income: A tale of two approaches

Daixin He, Langchuan Peng and Xiaxin Wang

Optimal tax systems with endogenous behavioral biases

Dylan T. Moore and Joel Slemrod

Preference responsibility versus poverty reduction in the taxation of labor incomes

Lancelot Henry de Frahan and Francois Maniquet

Projecting unemployment durations: A factor-flows simulation approach with application to the COVID-19 recession

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and John Coglianese

Preference heterogeneity and school segregation

Hessel Oosterbeek, Sándor Sóvágó and Bas van der Klaauw

Drug firms’ payments and physicians’ prescribing behavior in Medicare Part D

Colleen Carey, Ethan Lieber and Sarah Miller

The effect of the US safety net on material hardship over two decades

Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe and Breno Braga

Size-dependent policies and risky firm creation

Sakai Ando

Motivating teams: Private feedback and public recognition at work

Clara Delavallade

Too family friendly? The consequences of parent part-time working rights

Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

The urban crime and heat gradient in high and low poverty areas

Kilian Heilmann, Matthew Kahn and Cheng Tang