Journal of Public Economics

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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

Volume 196, issue C, 2021

When guidance changes: Government stances and public beliefs

Charlie Rafkin, Advik Shreekumar and Pierre-Luc Vautrey

Do EITC expansions pay for themselves? Effects on tax revenue and government transfers

Jacob Bastian and Maggie R. Jones

The long-term spillover effects of changes in the return to schooling

Ran Abramitzky, Victor Lavy and Santiago Perez

Investment differences between public and private firms: Evidence from U.S. tax returns

Naomi Feldman, Laura Kawano, Elena Patel, Nirupama Rao, Michael Stevens and Jesse Edgerton

Just above the exam cutoff score: Elite college admission and wages in China

Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li

Brains or beauty? Causal evidence on the returns to education and attractiveness in the online dating market

Johan Egebark, Mathias Ekström, Erik Plug and Mirjam Praag

My home is my castle – The benefits of working from home during a pandemic crisis

Jean-Victor Alipour, Harald Fadinger and Jan Schymik

Missing markets: Evidence on agricultural groundwater demand from volumetric pricing

Ellen Bruno and Katrina Jessoe

Do financial incentives aimed at decreasing interhousehold inequality increase intrahousehold inequality?

Amanda Chuan, John List and Anya Samek

The schooling and labor market effects of eliminating university tuition in Ecuador

Teresa Molina and Ivan Rivadeneyra

What motivates non-democratic leadership: Evidence from COVID-19 reopenings in China

Raymond Fisman, Hui Lin, Cong Sun, Yongxiang Wang and Daxuan Zhao

Information, switching costs, and consumer choice: Evidence from two randomised field experiments in Swedish primary health care

Anders Anell, Jens Dietrichson, Lina Maria Ellegård and Gustav Kjellsson

Volume 195, issue C, 2021

The effect of debt collection laws on access to credit

Charles Romeo and Ryan Sandler

Political economy of third party interventions

Sabyasachi Das, Souvik Dutta and Abhirup Sarkar

“Rugged individualism” and collective (in)action during the COVID-19 pandemic

Samuel Bazzi, Martin Fiszbein and Mesay Gebresilasse

What the COVID-19 school closure left in its wake: Evidence from a regression discontinuity analysis in Japan

Reo Takaku and Izumi Yokoyama

Optimal income taxation with labor supply responses at two margins: When is an Earned Income Tax Credit optimal?

Emanuel Hansen

Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Pol Campos-Mercade, Armando Meier, Florian Schneider and Erik Wengström

False alarm? Estimating the marginal value of health signals

Toshiaki Iizuka, Katsuhiko Nishiyama, Brian Chen and Karen Eggleston

Volume 194, issue C, 2021

The Social Value of Health Insurance: Results from Ghana

Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó, Arndt Reichert and Christoph Strupat

Can gender quotas in candidate lists empower women? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Manuel Bagues and Pamela Campa

Economic preferences and compliance in the social stress test of the COVID-19 crisis

Stephan Müller and Holger A. Rau

Divided we stay home: Social distancing and ethnic diversity

Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, Alexey Makarin and Maria Petrova

A simple dynamic climate cooperation model

Eugen Kovac and Robert C. Schmidt

The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

What determines school segregation? The crucial role of neighborhood factors

Gregorio Caetano and Hugh Macartney

Asocial capital: Civic culture and social distancing during COVID-19

Ruben Durante, Luigi Guiso and Giorgio Gulino

COVID and crime: An early empirical look

David Abrams

Sanctioning and trustworthiness across ethnic groups: Experimental evidence from Afghanistan

Vojtěch Bartoš and Ian Levely

Labor market policies during an epidemic

Serdar Birinci, Fatih Karahan, Yusuf Mercan and Kurt See

Job search during the COVID-19 crisis

Lena Hensvik, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot

Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Daniel Fernandez-Kranz and Natalia Nollenberger

Shaming as an incentive mechanism against stealing: Behavioral and physiological evidence

Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo and Mallory Montgomery

Political hierarchy and regional economic development: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity in China

Junxue Jia, Xuan Liang and Guangrong Ma

Housing liquidity and long-term care insurance demand: A quantitative evaluation

Bertrand Achou

Inequality of fear and self-quarantine: Is there a trade-off between GDP and public health?

Sangmin Aum, Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee and Yongseok Shin

Does higher Institutional Quality improve the Appropriateness of Healthcare Provision?

Giacomo De Luca, Domenico Lisi, Marco Ferdinando Martorana and Luigi Siciliani

Volume 193, issue C, 2021

Intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status in the US

Timothy Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder and Ashley Wong

Is four less than five? Effects of four-day school weeks on student achievement in Oregon

Paul N. Thompson

Behavioral responses to inheritance and gift taxation: Evidence from Germany

Ulrich Glogowsky

Civic capital and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic☆

John Barrios, Efraim Benmelech, Yael V. Hochberg, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Fear, lockdown, and diversion: Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020

Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson

Migration, externalities, and the diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia☆

Jean N. Lee, Mahreen Mahmud, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran and Abu Shonchoy

The anatomy of behavioral responses to social assistance when informal employment is high

Marcelo Bergolo and Guillermo Cruces

State and local government employment in the COVID-19 crisis

Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche

Reducing discrimination in the field: Evidence from an awareness raising intervention targeting gender biases in student evaluations of teaching

Anne Boring and Arnaud Philippe

Contagion of populist extremism

Daiki Kishishita and Atsushi Yamagishi

Legislating during war: Conflict and politics in Colombia

Juan Morales

Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment

Andreas Lichter and Amelie Schiprowski

Family and government insurance: Wage, earnings, and income risks in the Netherlands and the U.S

Mariacristina De Nardi, Giulio Fella, Marike Knoef, Gonzalo Paz-Pardo and Raun Van Ooijen

The heterogeneous and regressive consequences of COVID-19: Evidence from high quality panel data

Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher and Hamish Low

Revenge of the experts: Will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?

Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Orkun Saka

Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks: Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time

Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Joshua Goodman and Christine Mulhern

COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends

Abel Brodeur, Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche and Nattavudh Powdthavee