Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 234, issue C, 2024

The effects of recreational marijuana laws on drug use and crime

Joseph J. Sabia, Dhaval Dave, Fawaz Alotaibi and Daniel I. Rees

Understanding and increasing policymakers’ sensitivity to program impact

Mattie Toma and Elizabeth Bell

Energy efficiency can deliver for climate policy: Evidence from machine learning-based targeting

Peter Christensen, Paul Francisco, Erica Myers, Hansen Shao and Mateus Souza

Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital

Corina Boar and Matthew Knowles

Retirement puzzles: New evidence from personal finances

Arna Olafsson and Michaela Pagel

Relaxing financial constraints with tax credits and migrating out of rural and distressed America

Jacob Bastian and Dan Black

TRAP’d Teens: Impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education

Kelly Jones and Mayra Pineda-Torres

Social preferences on networks

Sarah Rezaei, Stephanie Rosenkranz, Utz Weitzel and Bastian Westbrock

The demand for protection and the persistently high rates of gun violence among young black males

William N. Evans and Maciej Kotowski

Rethinking principal effects on student outcomes

Brendan Bartanen, Aliza N. Husain and David D. Liebowitz

Leveling the playing field: Constraints on multinational profit shifting and the performance of national firms

P. Gauß, M. Kortenhaus, N. Riedel and M. Simmler

Understanding policing in the aftermath of gun violence: Examining investigatory stops and crime in Chicago

William LeRoy

Limbo or leverage? Asylum waiting and refugee integration

Olof Åslund, Mattias Engdahl and Olof Rosenqvist

Does granting refugee status to family-reunified women improve their integration?

Linea Hasager

The “Benefits” of being small: Loose fiscal policy in the European Monetary Union

Lamar Crombach, Frank Bohn and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Dynamic effects of tax audits and the role of intentions

Tobias Gabel Christiansen

Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation

Daniel Kashner and Mateusz Stalinski

Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil

Caio Piza, Astrid Zwager, Matteo Ruzzante, Rafael Dantas and Andre Loureiro

The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertility

Daniel Dench, Mayra Pineda-Torres and Caitlin Myers

Local minimum wage laws, boundary discontinuity methods, and policy spillovers

Ekaterina Jardim, Mark Long, Robert Plotnick, Jacob Vigdor and Emma Wiles

The gatekeeper’s dilemma: Political selection or team effort

Jon Fiva, Federica Izzo and Janne Tukiainen

Volume 233, issue C, 2024

Firms as tax collectors

Pablo Garriga and Dario Tortarolo

Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?

Alexander Cappelen, Thomas de Haan and Bertil Tungodden

Secure communities as immigration enforcement: How secure is the child care market?

Umair Ali, Jessica H. Brown and Chris M. Herbst

A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s

Erik Hembre, J. Michael Collins and Samuel Wylde

Volume 232, issue C, 2024

Dynamic electoral competition with voter loss-aversion and imperfect recall

Ben Lockwood, Minh Le and James Rockey

National parks and economic development

Andrea Szabó and Gergely Ujhelyi

Social mobility in Germany

Majed Dodin, Sebastian Findeisen, Lukas Henkel, Dominik Sachs and Paul Schüle

Online tutoring works: Experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children

Lucas Gortazar, Claudia Hupkau and Antonio Roldán-Monés

The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings

Ellen Stuart and Victoria L. Bryant

A toolkit for setting and evaluating price floors

Carlos Eduardo Hernández and Santiago Cantillo-Cleves

The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers

Jonathan Leganza

Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness

Antoine Loeper and Wioletta Dziuda

Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand

Lutz Kilian and Xiaoqing Zhou

Volume 231, issue C, 2024

Courts, Crime and Economic Performance: Evidence from a Judicial Reform in Kenya

Matthieu Chemin, Paul Kimalu and Simon Newman-Bachand

Early childhood human capital formation at scale

Johannes M. Bos, Abu Shonchoy, Saravana Ravindran and Akib Khan

The (in)visible hand: Do workers discriminate against employers?

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan and Danyang Li

The long-run impacts of adolescent drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws

Tatiana Abboud, Andriana Bellou and Joshua Lewis

The labor market impacts of America’s first paid maternity leave policy

Brenden Timpe

Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest

Alastair Langtry

The limits of social recognition: Experimental evidence from blood donors

Lorenz Goette and Egon Tripodi

Self-signaling in voting

Lydia Mechtenberg, Grischa Perino, Nicolas Treich, Jean-Robert Tyran and Stephanie W. Wang

Why are older men working more? The role of social security

Zhixiu Yu

Volume 230, issue C, 2024

Transitory income changes and consumption smoothing: Evidence from Mexico

Manuela Angelucci, Carlos Chiapa, Silvia Prina and Irvin Rojas

Powers that be? Political alignment, government formation, and government stability

Felipe Carozzi, Davide Cipullo and Luca Repetto

Football, alcohol, and domestic abuse

Ria Ivandić, Tom Kirchmaier, Yasaman Saeidi and Neus Torres Blas

Joint retirement of couples: Evidence from discontinuities in Denmark

Esteban Garcia-Miralles and Jonathan Leganza

Disparate racial impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on voter turnout

Stephen B. Billings, Noah Braun, Daniel B. Jones and Ying Shi

Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall

Arnaud Chevalier and Olivier Marie

Income effects and labour supply: Evidence from a child benefits reform

Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Jack Blundell

Improving preschool provision and encouraging-demand: Evidence from a large-scale construction program

Jan Berkes, Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer and Tsuyoshi Fukao

The effects of electronic monitoring on offenders and their families

Julien Grenet, Hans Grönqvist and Susan Niknami

The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?

Christopher Barrington-Leigh

Moving opportunities: The impact of mixed-income public housing regenerations on student achievement

Lorenzo Neri

No-claim refunds and healthcare use

Daniel Avdic, Simon Decker, Martin Karlsson and Martin Salm

Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections

Alison Lodermeier