Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 165, issue C, 2018

Cooperation and norm enforcement - The individual-level perspective pp. 1-16

Felix Albrecht, Sebastian Kube and Christian Traxler

Inheritance and wealth inequality: Evidence from population registers pp. 17-30

Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson and Daniel Waldenström

Reducing evasion through self-reporting: Evidence from charitable contributions pp. 31-47

Alisa Tazhitdinova

Firm types, price-setting strategies, and consumption-tax incidence pp. 48-72

Jarkko Harju, Tuomas Kosonen and Oskar Skans

Expressive vs. strategic voters: An empirical assessment pp. 73-81

Jörg Spenkuch

Assessing the effects of reemployment bonuses on job search: A regression discontinuity approach pp. 82-100

Taehyun Ahn

Climate agreements in a mitigation-adaptation game pp. 101-113

Basak Bayramoglu, Michael Finus and Jean-François Jacques

Bridging the gap for Roma: The effects of an ethnically targeted program on prenatal care and child health pp. 114-132

Andreea Mitrut and Simona Tudor

Alternative value elicitation formats in contingent valuation: Mechanism design and convergent validity pp. 133-145

Christian Vossler and J Holladay

Way station or launching pad? Unpacking the returns to adult technical education pp. 146-159

Celeste K. Carruthers and Thomas Sanford

Setting the bar - an experimental investigation of immigration requirements pp. 160-169

Menusch Khadjavi and Jasper D. Tjaden

What happens when the insurer can say no? Assessing prior authorization as a tool to prevent high-risk prescriptions and to lower costs pp. 170-200

Marcus Dillender

Popularity shocks and political selection pp. 201-216

Francisco Cavalcanti, Gianmarco Daniele and Sergio Galletta

Endogenous audits, uncertainty, and taxpayer assistance services: Theory and experiments pp. 217-229

Christian Vossler and Scott M. Gilpatric

News media and crime perceptions: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 230-255

Nicola Mastrorocco and Luigi Minale

Volume 164, issue C, 2018

Improving police services: Evidence from the French Quarter Task Force pp. 1-18

Cheng Cheng and Wei Long

Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement pp. 19-32

Wolfgang Frimmel, Gerard Horvath, Mario Schnalzenberger and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Learning about job search: A field experiment with job seekers in Germany pp. 33-49

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Simon Jäger and Florian Zimmermann

Pollution or crime: The effect of driving restrictions on criminal activity pp. 50-69

Paul Carrillo, Andrea Lopez-Luzuriaga and Arun Malik

Does central supervision enhance local environmental enforcement? Quasi-experimental evidence from China pp. 70-90

Bing Zhang, Xiaolan Chen and Huanxiu Guo

Propagation and smoothing of shocks in alternative social security systems pp. 91-105

Alan Auerbach, Lorenz Kueng, Ronald Lee and Yury Yatsynovich

Prescription drug use under Medicare Part D: A linear model of nonlinear budget sets pp. 106-138

Jason Abaluck, Jonathan Gruber and Ashley Swanson

Party discipline and government spending: Theory and evidence pp. 139-152

Marta Curto-Grau and Galina Zudenkova

On the social inappropriateness of discrimination pp. 153-164

Abigail Barr, Tom Lane and Daniele Nosenzo

School boards and student segregation pp. 165-182

Hugh Macartney and John Singleton

Parental responses to child support obligations: Evidence from administrative data pp. 183-196

Maya Rossin-Slater and Miriam Wüst

Tax reform and the political economy of the tax base pp. 197-210

Ethan Ilzetzki

Dynamic fiscal competition: A political economy theory pp. 211-224

Calin Arcalean

Random interactions in the Chamber: Legislators' behavior and political distance pp. 225-240

Alessandro Saia

Liberté, égalité…religiosité pp. 241-253

Joan Esteban, Gilat Levy and Laura Mayoral

School spirit: Legislator school ties and state funding for higher education pp. 254-269

Aaron K. Chatterji, Joowon Kim and Ryan McDevitt

Smart sentencing guidelines: The effect of marginal policy changes on recidivism pp. 270-293

Sarah M. Estelle and David Phillips

Volume 163, issue C, 2018

Politics and public goods in developing countries: Evidence from the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi pp. 1-19

David Blakeslee

Priorities in school choice: The case of the Boston mechanism in Barcelona pp. 20-36

Caterina Calsamiglia and Maia Güell

Peer effects in financial decision-making pp. 37-59

Ethan Lieber and William Skimmyhorn

Transparency in parliamentary voting pp. 60-76

Christine Benesch, Monika Bütler and Katharina Hofer

Caution! Men not at work: Gender-specific labor market conditions and child maltreatment pp. 77-98

Jason Lindo, Jessamyn Schaller and Benjamin Hansen

The effect of the affordable care act Medicaid expansions on financial wellbeing pp. 99-112

Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhashkar Mazumder, Sarah Miller and Ashley Wong

Volume 162, issue C, 2018

A special issue of the Journal of Public Economics: Honoring the work of Sir Anthony B. Atkinson (1944–2017) pp. 1-3

Henrik J. Kleven and Erzo Luttmer

Public economics as if time matters: Climate change and the dynamics of policy pp. 4-17

Nicholas Stern

What do self-reports of wellbeing say about life-cycle theory and policy? pp. 18-25

Angus Deaton

Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century pp. 26-47

Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony Atkinson and Salvatore Morelli

Income inequality and the labour market in Britain and the US pp. 48-62

Richard Blundell, Robert Joyce, Agnes Norris Keiller and James Ziliak

Income inequality in France, 1900–2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA) pp. 63-77

Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret and Thomas Piketty

Longitudinal determinants of end-of-life wealth inequality pp. 78-88

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David A. Wise

Who owns the wealth in tax havens? Macro evidence and implications for global inequality pp. 89-100

Annette Alstadsæter, Niels Johannesen and Gabriel Zucman

Pareto efficient taxation and expenditures: Pre- and re-distribution pp. 101-119

Joseph Stiglitz

A simpler theory of optimal capital taxation pp. 120-142

Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva

Optimal management of transfers: An odd paradox pp. 143-157

François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Competition in public service provision: The role of not-for-profit providers pp. 158-172

Timothy Besley and James Malcomson