Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 170, issue C, 2019

Income and substitution effects of a disability insurance reform pp. 1-14

Eva Deuchert and Beatrix Eugster

The king can do no wrong: On the criminal immunity of leaders pp. 15-26

Jiahua Che, Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao

The effects of cash assistance on refugee outcomes pp. 27-52

Melissa LoPalo

The minimum wage and the Great Recession: Evidence of effects on the employment and income trajectories of low-skilled workers pp. 53-67

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Wither

Financial aid, debt management, and socioeconomic outcomes: Post-college effects of merit-based aid pp. 68-82

Judith Scott-Clayton and Basit Zafar

Cost-sharing design matters: A comparison of the rebate and deductible in healthcare pp. 83-97

Minke Remmerswaal, Jan Boone, Michiel Bijlsma and Rudy Douven

Volume 169, issue C, 2019

The effect of recipient contribution requirements on support for social programs pp. 1-16

Sally Sadoff and Anya Samek

Finders, keepers? pp. 17-33

Niko Jaakkola, Daniel Spiro and Arthur A. van Benthem

Does emergency financial assistance reduce crime? pp. 34-51

Caroline Palmer, David Phillips and James Sullivan

When collective ignorance is bliss: Theory and experiment on voting for learning pp. 52-64

Boris Ginzburg and Jose-Alberto Guerra

Job search requirements, effort provision and labor market outcomes pp. 65-88

Patrick Arni and Amelie Schiprowski

Tax sparing agreements, territorial tax reforms, and foreign direct investment pp. 89-108

Céline Azémar and Dhammika Dharmapala

Ex-ante commitments to “give if you win” exceed donations after a win pp. 109-127

Christian Kellner, David Reinstein and Gerhard Riener

Will destination-based taxes be fully exploited when available? An application to the U.S. commodity tax system pp. 128-143

David Agrawal and Mohammed Mardan

Fragmented division of labor and healthcare costs: Evidence from moves across regions pp. 144-159

Leila Agha, Brigham Frandsen and James Rebitzer

Employment time and the cyclicality of earnings growth pp. 160-171

Eran B. Hoffmann and Davide Malacrino

Carbon abatement with renewables: Evaluating wind and solar subsidies in Germany and Spain pp. 172-202

Jan Abrell, Mirjam Kosch and Sebastian Rausch

Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits pp. 203-222

Anna Raute

Volume 168, issue C, 2018

Experimental evidence on scaling up education reforms in Kenya pp. 1-20

Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Ng’ang’a, Alice and Justin Sandefur

Behavioral responses to inheritance tax: Evidence from notches in France pp. 21-34

Jonathan Goupille-Lebret and Jose Infante

Political economy of growth with a taste for status pp. 35-46

Lewis S. Davis

Fiscal competition and public debt pp. 47-61

Eckhard Janeba and Maximilian Todtenhaupt

Childhood nutrition and labor market outcomes: Evidence from a school breakfast program pp. 62-80

Aline Bütikofer, Eirin Mølland and Kjell G Salvanes

School meal quality and academic performance pp. 81-93

Michael Anderson, Justin Gallagher and Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie

Dynamic reform of public institutions: A model of motivated agents and collective reputation pp. 94-108

Justin Valasek

Do single-sex classes affect academic achievement? An experiment in a coeducational university pp. 109-126

Alison Booth, Lina Cardona-Sosa and Patrick Nolen

Does market size matter for charities? pp. 127-145

Simon Lapointe, Carlo Perroni, Kimberley Scharf and Janne Tukiainen

Why do HMOs spend less? Patient selection, physician price sensitivity, and prices pp. 146-161

Daniel W. Sacks

Women's career choices, social norms and child care policies pp. 162-173

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

Social image concerns and welfare take-up pp. 174-192

Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König and Renke Schmacker

Volume 167, issue C, 2018

Single mothers and their children: Evaluating a work-encouraging welfare reform pp. 1-20

Katrine Løken, Kjell Lommerud and Katrine Holm Reiso

The enforcement of mandatory disclosure rules pp. 21-32

Matthias Dahm, Paula González and Nicolás Porteiro

When costly voting is beneficial pp. 33-42

Surajeet Chakravarty, Todd Kaplan and Gareth Myles

The impacts of reduced access to abortion and family planning services on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases pp. 43-68

Stefanie Fischer, Heather Royer and Corey White

Pay for locally monitored performance? A welfare analysis for teacher attendance in Ugandan primary schools pp. 69-90

Jacobus Cilliers, Ibrahim Kasirye, Clare Leaver, Pieter Serneels and Andrew Zeitlin

Discounting by committee pp. 91-104

Antony Millner and Geoffrey Heal

Balanced budget rules and fiscal outcomes: Evidence from historical constitutions pp. 105-119

Zareh Asatryan, César Castellón and Thomas Stratmann

Shaming tax delinquents pp. 120-137

Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Ugo antonio Troiano

How information affects support for education spending: Evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States pp. 138-157

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Martin R. West and Ludger Woessmann

The structure of state corporate taxation and its impact on state tax revenues and economic activity pp. 158-176

Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Owen Zidar

Tax competition with heterogeneous capital mobility pp. 177-189

Steeve Mongrain and John D. Wilson

Spillovers from gatekeeping – Peer effects in absenteeism pp. 190-204

Anna Godøy and Harald Dale-Olsen

Optimal taxation and insurance using machine learning — Sufficient statistics and beyond pp. 205-219

Maximilian Kasy

Tax induced emissions? Estimating short-run emission impacts from carbon taxation under different market structures pp. 220-239

Gordon Leslie

Flipping a coin: Evidence from university applications pp. 240-250

Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler and Georg Weizsäcker

Experienced inequality and preferences for redistribution pp. 251-262

Christopher Roth and Johannes Wohlfart

On the origins of gender gaps in human capital: Short- and long-term consequences of teachers' biases pp. 263-279

Victor Lavy and Edith Sand

Cognitive ability and in-group bias: An experimental study pp. 280-292

Fabian Paetzel and Rupert Sausgruber

Tax-induced mobility: Evidence from a foreigners' tax scheme in Switzerland pp. 293-324

Kurt Schmidheiny and Michaela Slotwinski

Volume 166, issue C, 2018

How should taxes be designed to encourage entrepreneurship? pp. 1-11

Roger Gordon and Sarada,

The effect of far right parties on the location choice of immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors pp. 12-26

Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin Green and Vincenzo Scoppa

Who feels the calorie crunch and when? The impact of school meals on cyclical food insecurity pp. 27-38

Michael Kuhn

Intergenerational policies, public debt, and economic growth: A politico-economic analysis pp. 39-52

Real Arai, Katsuyuki Naito and Tetsuo Ono

Rent-seeking incentives in share contests pp. 53-62

Alex Dickson, Ian MacKenzie and Petros Sekeris

Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals' performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service pp. 63-80

Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons and Matthew Skellern

Teacher applicant hiring and teacher performance: Evidence from DC public schools pp. 81-97

Brian A. Jacob, Jonah E. Rockoff, Eric S. Taylor, Benjamin Lindy and Rachel Rosen

Individual welfare analysis for collective households pp. 98-114

Laurens Cherchye, Sam Cosaert, Bram De Rock, Pieter Kerstens and Frederic Vermeulen

Can fiscal rules constrain the size of government? An analysis of the “crown jewel” of tax and expenditure limitations pp. 115-144

Paul Eliason and Byron Lutz

The arsenal of democracy: Production and politics during WWII pp. 145-161

Paul Rhode, Snyder, Jr., James M. and Koleman Strumpf