Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 188, issue C, 2020

A natural experiment on discrimination in elections

David E. Broockman and Evan J. Soltas

Child care center quality and early child development

Nina Drange and Marte Rønning

Do Americans want to tax wealth? Evidence from online surveys

Raymond Fisman, Keith Gladstone, Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu

Parental monitoring and children's internet use: The role of information, control, and cues

Francisco Gallego, Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches

Estimating taxable income responses with elasticity heterogeneity

Anil Kumar and Che-Yuan Liang

Micro-targeting and polarization

Anja Prummer

Cost saving and the freezing of corporate pension plans

Joshua D. Rauh, Irina Stefanescu and Stephen Zeldes

Teacher accountability reforms and the supply and quality of new teachers

Matthew Kraft, Eric J. Brunner, Shaun M. Dougherty and David J. Schwegman

Advertising and media capture: The case of climate change

Graham Beattie

Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean student movement

Felipe González

Catching up or crowding out? The crowd-out effects of catch-up retirement contributions on non-retirement saving

Lucas Goodman

Tax evasion, capital gains taxes, and the housing market

Sumit Agarwal, Keyang Li, Yu Qin, Jing Wu and Jubo Yan

Adjustment cost and incentives to work: Evidence from a disability insurance program

Arezou Zaresani

Costs of energy efficiency mandates can reverse the sign of rebound

Don Fullerton and Chi Ta

Educational inequality and public policy preferences: Evidence from representative survey experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner and Ludger Woessmann

Volume 187, issue C, 2020

Federalism, partial prohibition, and cross-border sales: Evidence from recreational marijuana

Benjamin Hansen, Keaton Miller and Caroline Weber

Opinion dynamics via search engines (and other algorithmic gatekeepers)

Fabrizio Germano and Francesco Sobbrio

Estimating long-run income inequality from mixed tabular data: Empirical evidence from Norway, 1875–2017

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony Atkinson and Jørgen Modalsli

An empirical test of hypercongestion in highway bottlenecks

Michael Anderson and Lucas Davis

Measuring economic efficiency using inverse-optimum weights

Nathaniel Hendren

The equilibrium impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment: Evidence from a non-linear policy rule

Peter Fredriksson and Martin Söderström

Losing public health insurance: TennCare reform and personal financial distress

Laura M. Argys, Andrew Friedson, M. Melinda Pitts and Daniel Tello-Trillo

The credit consequences of unpaid medical bills

Kenneth Brevoort, Daniel Grodzicki and Martin B. Hackmann

The long-run effects of reducing early school tracking

Serena Canaan

Volume 186, issue C, 2020

A theory of informational autocracy

Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

Balance sheet insolvency and contribution revenue in public charities

Tatiana Homonoff, Thomas Luke Spreen and Travis St. Clair

An extra year to learn English? Early grade retention and the human capital development of English learners

David Figlio and Umut Özek

Providing performance information in education: An experimental evaluation in Colombia

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Kathryn Gonzalez, Francisco Lagos and David J. Deming

Teacher mobility and merit pay: Evidence from a voluntary public award program

Samuel Berlinski and Alejandra Ramos

Are changes of organizational form costly? Income shifting and business entry responses to taxes

Alisa Tazhitdinova

Volume 185, issue C, 2020

Decentralization and efficiency of subsidy targeting: Evidence from chiefs in rural Malawi

Maria Basurto Preciado, Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson

Coordination and contagion: Individual connections and peer mechanisms in a randomized field experiment

Philip Babcock, Kelly Bedard, Stefanie Fischer and John Hartman

Media competition, information provision and political participation: Evidence from French local newspapers and elections, 1944–2014

Julia Cagé

The impact of taxing vacancy on housing markets: Evidence from France

Mariona Segú

Technology and tax systems

David Agrawal and David Wildasin

First impressions: How leader changes affect bilateral aid

Tobias Rommel and Paul Schaudt

Deathbed tax planning

Oscar Erixson and Sebastian Escobar

Preferences for power

Elena S. Pikulina and Chloe Tergiman

Federalizing benefits: The introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the size of the safety net

Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Lucie Schmidt

Confirmation bias and signaling in Downsian elections

Antony Millner, Hélène Ollivier and Leo Simon

Volume 184, issue C, 2020

Persistence of power: Repeated multilateral bargaining with endogenous agenda setting authority

Marina Agranov, Christopher Cotton and Chloe Tergiman

How do hospitals respond to managed care? Evidence from at-risk newborns

Ajin Lee

The impact of industry consolidation on government procurement: Evidence from Department of Defense contracting

Rodrigo Carril and Mark Duggan

Friends with benefits: Patronage networks and distributive politics in China

Junyan Jiang and Muyang Zhang

Inequalities and the individualization of wealth

Nicolas Frémeaux and Marion Leturcq

Retirement and healthcare utilization

Wolfgang Frimmel and Gerald Pruckner

Tax-motivated transfer mispricing in South Africa: Direct evidence using transaction data

Ludvig Wier

Do peers influence occupational preferences? Evidence from randomly-assigned peer groups at West Point

Todd Jones and Michael Kofoed

Should congested cities reduce their speed limits? Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil

Amanda Ang, Peter Christensen and Renato Vieira

Unilateral tax reform: Border adjusted taxes, cash flow taxes, and transfer pricing

Eric Bond and Thomas Gresik

Temperature and temperament: Evidence from Twitter

Patrick Baylis

Do only tax incentives matter? Labor supply and demand responses to an unusually large and salient tax break

Alisa Tazhitdinova

Abandon ship? Party brands and politicians' responses to a political scandal

Gianmarco Daniele, Sergio Galletta and Benny Geys