Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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 192, issue C, 2020

Early evidence of the impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment

Kenneth Couch, Robert Fairlie and Huanan Xu

The power of the IUD: Effects of expanding access to contraception through Title X clinics

Andrea Kelly, Jason Lindo and Analisa Packham

Disentangling retirement and savings responses

Maarten Lindeboom and Raymond Montizaan

Designed to fail: Effects of the default option and information complexity on student loan repayment

James Cox, Daniel Kreisman and Susan Dynarski

Consumption smoothing and debtor protections

Nathaniel Pattison

Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19

Olivier Bargain and Ulugbek Aminjonov

Volume 191, issue C, 2020

Fatal attraction? Extended unemployment benefits, labor force exits, and mortality

Andreas Kuhn, Stefan Staubli, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller

Do place-based tax incentives create jobs?

Hyejin Ku, Uta Schönberg and Ragnhild C. Schreiner

Inequality in the joint distribution of consumption and time use

Jeehoon Han, Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan

Inheritance taxation and wealth effects on the labor supply of heirs

Fabian Kindermann, Lukas Mayr and Dominik Sachs

Inequality in socio-emotional skills: A cross-cohort comparison

Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti and Giacomo Mason

How much to save? Decision costs and retirement plan participation

Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Richard Patterson and William Skimmyhorn

Community monitoring and crime: Evidence from Chicago's Safe Passage Program

Robert Gonzalez and Sarah Komisarow

Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic

Hunt Allcott, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler and David Yang

Labor market concerns and support for immigration

Ingar Haaland and Christopher Roth

Can access to health care mitigate the effects of temperature on mortality?

Jamie T. Mullins and Corey White

Optimal leniency and the organization design of group crime

Giovanni Immordino, Salvatore Piccolo and Paolo Roberti

Real-time price indices: Inflation spike and falling product variety during the Great Lockdown

Xavier Jaravel and Martin O'Connell

The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey

Esteban Aucejo, Jacob French, Maria Paola Ugalde Araya and Basit Zafar

Human mobility restrictions and the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China

Hanming Fang, Long Wang and Yang Yang

US unemployment insurance replacement rates during the pandemic

Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel and Joseph Vavra

Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dave Altig, Scott Baker, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Scarlet Chen, Steven Davis, Julia Leather, Brent Meyer, Emil Mihaylov, Paul Mizen, Nicholas Parker, Thomas Renault, Pawel Smietanka and Gregory Thwaites

Misaligned incentives and the scale of incarceration in the United States

Aurélie Ouss

My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador

Pablo Brassiolo, Ricardo Estrada and Gustavo Fajardo

How can Bill and Melinda Gates increase other people's donations to fund public goods?

Dean Karlan and John List

Volume 190, issue C, 2020

Racial discrimination in transportation network companies

Yanbo Ge, Christopher R. Knittel, Don MacKenzie and Stephen Zoepf

Entry through the narrow door: The costs of just failing high stakes exams

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

Value for money? Vote-buying and politician accountability

Jessica Leight, Dana Foarta, Rohini Pande and Laura Ralston

Minimum wage policy with optimal taxes and unemployment

Adam Lavecchia

Constrained efficient equilibria in selection markets with continuous types

Irina Gemmo, Christian Kubitza and Casey Rothschild

Spillover effects of stricter immigration policies

Cristina Bratu, Matz Dahlberg, Mattias Engdahl and Till Nikolka

Cross-border tax evasion after the common reporting standard: Game over?

Elisa Casi-Eberhard, Christoph Spengel and Barbara M.B. Stage

Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo and Chunbei Wang

Information frictions and access to the Paycheck Protection Program

John Humphries, Christopher Neilson and Gabriel Ulyssea

Output and attribute-based carbon regulation under uncertainty

Ryan Kellogg

Discontinuous system of allowances: The response of prosocial health-care professionals

Helena M. Hernández-Pizarro, Catia Nicodemo and Guillem López Casasnovas

The long-term effects of childhood exposure to the earned income tax credit on health outcomes

Breno Braga, Fredric Blavin and Anuj Gangopadhyaya

Asymmetric information in residential rental markets: Implications for the energy efficiency gap

Erica Myers

Understanding day care enrolment gaps

Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz and Sevrin Waights

When financial aid is scarce: The challenge of allocating college aid where it is needed most

Drew M. Anderson

Enforcement for sale: Lobbying for water in Pakistan's Indus Basin

Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri

Suffering in silence: How COVID-19 school closures inhibit the reporting of child maltreatment

E. Jason Baron, Ezra G. Goldstein and Cullen T. Wallace

The macroeconomic effects of lockdown policies

Stéphane Auray and Aurélien Eyquem

Heard it through the grapevine: The direct and network effects of a tax enforcement field experiment on firms

William Boning, John Guyton, Ronald Hodge and Joel Slemrod

Volume 189, issue C, 2020

How individuals respond to a liquidity shock: Evidence from the 2013 government shutdown

Michael Gelman, Shachar Kariv, Matthew D. Shapiro, Dan Silverman and Steven Tadelis

Optimal progressivity with age-dependent taxation

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni L. Violante

The value of registry data for consumption analysis: An application to health shocks

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais and Johannes Spinnewijn

What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?

Lasse Eika, Magne Mogstad and Ola Vestad

Non-durable consumption and housing net worth in the Great Recession: Evidence from easily accessible data

Greg Kaplan, Kurt Mitman and Giovanni L. Violante

How many jobs can be done at home?

Jonathan Dingel and Brent Neiman

Labor demand in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from vacancy postings and UI claims

Eliza Forsythe, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange and David Wiczer

Sheltering in place and domestic violence: Evidence from calls for service during COVID-19

Emily Leslie and Riley Wilson

Relaxing household liquidity constraints through social security

Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin

Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys

Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin and Christopher Rauh

Disentangling policy effects using proxy data: Which shutdown policies affected unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Edward Kong and Daniel Prinz