Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 151, issue C, 2017

Regulatory protective measures and risky behavior: Evidence from ice hockey pp. 1-11

Alberto Chong and Pascual Restrepo

Uncertain altruism and the provision of long term care pp. 12-24

Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Pierre Pestieau

The response of deferred executive compensation to changes in tax rates pp. 28-40

Aspen Gorry, Kevin Hassett, R. Glenn Hubbard and Aparna Mathur

The elasticity of taxable income in the presence of deduction possibilities pp. 41-55

Philipp Doerrenberg, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

Cross-country evidence on the relation between capital gains taxes, risk, and expected returns pp. 56-73

Luzi Hail, Stephanie Sikes and Clare Wang

Do dividend taxes affect corporate investment? pp. 74-83

Annette Alstadsæter, Martin Jacob and Roni Michaely

Does front-loading taxation increase savings? Evidence from Roth 401(k) introductions pp. 84-95

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

Do Required Minimum Distribution Rules Matter? The Effect of the 2009 Holiday on Retirement Plan Distributions pp. 96-109

Jeffrey Brown, James Poterba and David P. Richardson

Voluntary disclosure of evaded taxes — Increasing revenue, or increasing incentives to evade? pp. 110-125

Dominika Langenmayr

Volume 150, issue C, 2017

Growth and inequality in public good provision pp. 1-13

Simon Gächter, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas and Alexander Vostroknutov

The general equilibrium impacts of unemployment insurance: Evidence from a large online job board pp. 14-29

Ioana Marinescu

Using raffles to fund public goods: Lessons from a field experiment pp. 30-38

Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

Knowledge, power, and self-interest pp. 39-52

Bernhard Kittel, Georg Kanitsar and Stefan Traub

The effectiveness of incomplete and overlapping pollution regulation: Evidence from bans on phosphate in automatic dishwasher detergent pp. 53-74

Alex Cohen and David A. Keiser

The value of socialized medicine: The impact of universal primary healthcare provision on mortality rates in Turkey pp. 75-93

Resul Cesur, Pinar Gunes, Erdal Tekin and Aydogan Ulker

Volume 149, issue C, 2017

Does credit-card information reporting improve small-business tax compliance? pp. 1-19

Joel Slemrod, Brett Collins, Jeffrey Hoopes, Daniel Reck and Michael Sebastiani

The effect of expanding Medicaid eligibility on Supplemental Security Income program participation pp. 20-34

Marguerite Burns and Laura Dague

Robust policies to mitigate carbon leakage pp. 35-46

Christoph Böhringer, Knut Einar Rosendahl and Halvor Briseid Storrøsten

Insurance design in the presence of safety nets pp. 47-58

Tse-Ling Teh

Robust mechanism design and social preferences pp. 59-80

Felix Bierbrauer, Axel Ockenfels, Andreas Pollak and Désirée Rückert

Volume 148, issue C, 2017

Profit shifting of U.S. multinationals pp. 1-13

Timothy Dowd, Paul Landefeld and Anne Moore

The behavioralist as tax collector: Using natural field experiments to enhance tax compliance pp. 14-31

Michael Hallsworth, John List, Robert Metcalfe and Ivo Vlaev

Matching donations without crowding out? Some theoretical considerations, a field, and a lab experiment pp. 32-42

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

Why weak patents? Testing the examiner ignorance hypothesis pp. 43-56

Zhen Lei and Brian Wright

Pension-spiking, free-riding, and the effects of pension reform on teachers' earnings pp. 57-74

Maria Fitzpatrick

Teacher performance pay: Experimental evidence from Pakistan pp. 75-91

Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Dhushyanth Raju

The effect of price shocks on undocumented students' college attainment and completion pp. 92-114

Dylan Conger and Lesley Turner

School segregation and the identification of tipping behavior pp. 115-135

Gregorio Caetano and Vikram Maheshri

The return to labor market mobility: An evaluation of relocation assistance for the unemployed pp. 136-151

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Robert Mahlstedt

Volume 147, issue C, 2017

Capital taxation and imperfect competition: ACE vs. CBIT pp. 1-15

Kurt Brekke, Armando Garcia Pires, Dirk Schindler and Guttorm Schjelderup

Local labor markets and criminal recidivism pp. 16-29

Crystal S. Yang

Threatening thresholds? The effect of disastrous regime shifts on the non-cooperative use of environmental goods and services pp. 30-49

Florian Diekert

Trade in fossil fuel deposits for preservation and strategic action pp. 50-61

Thomas Eichner and Rüdiger Pethig

The effect of a fiscal squeeze on tax enforcement: Evidence from a natural experiment in China pp. 62-76

Shawn Chen

Expert information and majority decisions pp. 77-88

Kohei Kawamura and Vasileios Vlaseros

Volume 146, issue C, 2017

Voting, education, and the Great Gatsby Curve pp. 1-14

Christopher Rauh

Does negative advertising affect giving behavior? Evidence from campaign contributions pp. 15-26

Sarah Niebler and Carly Urban

Bunching at the kink: Implications for spending responses to health insurance contracts pp. 27-40

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf

Happy voters pp. 41-57

Federica Liberini, Michela Redoano and Eugenio Proto

Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments pp. 58-78

Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it pp. 79-86

Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara

Potential Pareto Public Goods pp. 87-96

Sagi Dekel, Sven Fischer and Ro'i Zultan

Weighting recent performance to improve college and labor market outcomes pp. 97-108

George Bulman

Promotion incentives in the public sector: Evidence from Chinese schools pp. 109-128

Naureen Karachiwalla and Albert Park

Voting as a lottery pp. 129-137

Giuseppe Attanasi, Luca Corazzini and Francesco Passarelli

Social insurance with competitive insurance markets and risk misperception pp. 138-147

Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

Volume 145, issue C, 2017

The market sensitivity of retirement and defined contribution pensions: Evidence from the public sector pp. 1-13

Matthew T. Gustafson

Public procurement with unverifiable quality: The case for discriminatory competitive procedures pp. 14-26

Gian Luigi Albano, Berardino Cesi and Alberto Iozzi

Gender biases in student evaluations of teaching pp. 27-41

Anne Boring

Assessing bankruptcy reform in a model with temptation and equilibrium default pp. 42-64

Makoto Nakajima

Vehicle miles (not) traveled: Fuel economy requirements, vehicle characteristics, and household driving pp. 65-81

Jeremy West, Mark Hoekstra, Jonathan Meer and Steven Puller

Does fundraising create new giving? pp. 82-93

Jonathan Meer

The insurance value of medical innovation pp. 94-102

Darius Lakdawalla, Anup Malani and Julian Reif

Compulsory voting, turnout, and government spending: Evidence from Austria pp. 103-115

Mitchell Hoffman, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Maria Lombardi

The fiscal cost of weak governance: Evidence from teacher absence in India pp. 116-135

Karthik Muralidharan, Jishnu Das, Alaka Holla and Aakash Mohpal

Who monitors the monitor? Effect of party observers on electoral outcomes pp. 136-149

Agustin Casas, Guillermo Diaz and Andre Trindade

The tradeoff of the commons under stochastic use pp. 150-161

Xiaoyong Cao and Jiong Gong

Innovation under regulatory uncertainty: Evidence from medical technology pp. 181-200

Ariel Dora Stern

Decentralization and political career concerns pp. 201-210

Jiahua Che, Kim-Sau Chung and Yang K. Lu

Inside severance pay pp. 211-225

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi and Espen Moen

Combining price and quantity controls under partitioned environmental regulation pp. 226-242

Jan Abrell and Sebastian Rausch

The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse pp. 243-252

James Robinson, Ragnar Torvik and Thierry Verdier