Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 237, issue C, 2024

The “Privatization” of municipal debt

Ivan T. Ivanov and Tom Zimmermann

The impact of police shootings on gun violence and civilian cooperation

Maya Mikdash and Reem Zaiour

The impact of group size on giving versus demand for redistribution

Johanna Mollerstrom, Avner Strulov-Shlain and Dmitry Taubinsky

Optimal default options

B. Douglas Bernheim and Jonas Mueller-Gastell

The intergenerational effects of welfare transfers among single mothers: Evidence from an Israeli welfare reform

Yannay Shanan

Volume 236, issue C, 2024

The EITC and the extensive margin: A reappraisal

Henrik Kleven

Tax competition effects of a minimum tax rate: Empirical evidence from German municipalities

Thiess Buettner and Maximilian Poehnlein

Read my lips? Taxes and elections

Clemens Fuest, Klaus Gründler, Niklas Potrafke and Fabian Ruthardt

Who benefits from public financing of home-based long term care? Evidence from Medicaid

Karen Shen

Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard

David M. Anderson, Alex Hoagland and Ed Zhu

The long-run implications of slum clearance: A neighborhood analysis

Jessica LaVoice

Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text

Isabelle Cohen

Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA

Navid Sabet and Christoph Winter

R&D tax credits and innovation

Walter Melnik and Andrew Smyth

Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes

Jordan Richmond

Unconditional cash transfers and maternal employment: Evidence from the Baby’s First Years study

Maria Sauval, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Katherine A. Magnuson, Nathan A. Fox, Kimberly G. Noble and Hirokazu Yoshikawa

One thing leads to another: Evidence on the scope and persistence of behavioral spillovers

Alexander Goetz, Harald Mayr and Renate Schubert

Job displacement costs of phasing out coal

Juan-Pablo Rud, Michael Simmons, Gerhard Toews and Fernando Aragon

Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus

Jeremy Lebow, Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Salma Mousa and Horacio Coral

Volume 235, issue C, 2024

Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes

Cody Tuttle and Riley Wilson

On the effects of anti-profit shifting regulations: A developing country perspective

Sabine Laudage Teles, Nadine Riedel and Kristina Strohmaier

Labor supply and automation innovation: Evidence from an allocation policy

Alexander Danzer, Carsten Feuerbaum and Fabian Gaessler

Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe

Movin’ on up? The impacts of a large-scale housing lottery in Uruguay

Vincent Armentano, Craig McIntosh, Felipe Monestier, Rafael Piñeiro-Rodríguez, Fernando Rosenblatt and Guadalupe Tuñón

Inequality as an externality: Consequences for tax design

Morten Støstad and Frank Cowell

Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment

Dorine Boumans, Klaus Gründler, Niklas Potrafke and Fabian Ruthardt

We’ve got you covered! The effect of public health insurance on rural entrepreneurship in China

Zhenggang Wang, Zenan Wu and Ye Yuan

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