Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 144, issue C, 2016

Information-sensitive Leviathans pp. 1-13

Andreas Nicklisch, Kristoffel Grechenig and Christian Thöni

Uniform price mechanisms for threshold public goods provision with complete information: An experimental investigation pp. 14-26

Zhi Li, Christopher M. Anderson and Stephen Swallow

Physician ownership of complementary medical services pp. 27-39

Brian K. Chen, Paul Gertler and Chun-Yuh Yang

Sin licenses revisited pp. 40-51

Markus Haavio and Kaisa Kotakorpi

Optimal tax mix with income tax non-compliance pp. 52-63

Jason Huang and Juan Rios

Information, competition, and the quality of charities pp. 64-77

Silvana Krasteva and Huseyin Yildirim

On the implications of introducing cross-border loss-offset in the European Union pp. 78-89

Zarko Kalamov and Marco Runkel

Special interests and the media: Theory and an application to climate change pp. 91-108

Jesse Shapiro

Information, non-financial incentives, and student achievement: Evidence from a text messaging experiment pp. 109-121

Roland G. Fryer

Optimal taxation when people do not maximize well-being pp. 122-139

Aart Gerritsen

Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? Field-experimental evidence from Germany pp. 140-153

Pierre Boyer, Nadja Dwenger and Johannes Rincke

Volume 143, issue C, 2016

Taking the high road? Compliance with commuter tax allowances and the role of evasion spillovers pp. 1-14

Jörg Paetzold and Hannes Winner

Local favoritism in at-large proportional representation systems pp. 15-26

Jon Fiva and Askill Halse

Network effects and environmental externalities: Do clean technologies suffer from excess inertia? pp. 27-38

Mads Greaker and Kristoffer Midttømme

A model of redistribution under social identification in heterogeneous federations pp. 39-48

Joshua Holm

Disability benefit generosity and labor force withdrawal pp. 49-63

Kathleen Mullen and Stefan Staubli

Progressive taxation in a tournament economy pp. 64-72

Jeffrey Carpenter, Peter Matthews and Benjamin Tabb

Homophily, group size, and the diffusion of political information in social networks: Evidence from Twitter pp. 73-88

Yosh Halberstam and Brian Knight

Effort, luck, and voting for redistribution pp. 89-97

Lars Lefgren, David P. Sims and Olga Stoddard

The Effects of DACAmentation: The Impact of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on Unauthorized Immigrants pp. 98-114

Nolan Pope

Securing property rights: A dilemma experiment in Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States pp. 115-124

T.K. Ahn, Loukas Balafoutas, Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Francisco Campos-Ortiz, Louis Putterman and Matthias Sutter

Static and dynamic underinvestment: An experimental investigation pp. 125-141

Marina Agranov, Guillaume Fréchette, Thomas Palfrey and Emanuel Vespa

Does medical malpractice law improve health care quality? pp. 142-158

Michael Frakes and Anupam B. Jena

Volume 142, issue C, 2016

Superstitions, street traffic, and subjective well-being pp. 1-10

Michael Anderson, Fangwen Lu, Yiran Zhang, Jun Yang and Ping Qin

Fiscal rules and compliance expectations – Evidence for the German debt brake pp. 11-23

Friedrich Heinemann, Eckhard Janeba, Christoph Schröder and Frank Streif

Divided we reform? Evidence from US welfare policies pp. 24-38

Andreas Bernecker

Pension reform and labor supply pp. 39-55

Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott and Knut Røed

Identification of treatment effects under imperfect matching with an application to Chinese elite schools pp. 56-82

Hongliang Zhang

Gamma discounters are short-termist pp. 83-90

Christian Gollier

Volume 141, issue C, 2016

Relational altruism and giving in social groups pp. 1-10

Kimberley Scharf and Sarah Smith

Can welfare abuse be welfare improving? pp. 11-28

Karol Mazur

Cross-border tax evasion under a unilateral FATCA regime pp. 29-37

Dhammika Dharmapala

The economics of faith: using an apocalyptic prophecy to elicit religious beliefs in the field pp. 38-49

Ned Augenblick, Jesse Cunha, Ernesto Dal Bó and Justin M. Rao

Who benefits when the government pays more? Pass-through in the Medicare Advantage program pp. 50-67

Mark Duggan, Amanda Starc and Boris Vabson

Cohort mortality risk or adverse selection in annuity markets? pp. 68-81

Edmund Cannon and Ian Tonks

Volume 140, issue C, 2016

Do tax credits stimulate R&D spending? The effect of the R&D tax credit in its first decade pp. 1-12

Nirupama Rao

Investing in schools: capital spending, facility conditions, and student achievement pp. 13-29

Paco Martorell, Kevin Stange and Isaac McFarlin

Does banning carbonated beverages in schools decrease student consumption? pp. 30-50

Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot

Task-specific experience and task-specific talent: Decomposing the productivity of high school teachers pp. 51-72

Jason Cook and Richard Mansfield

Volume 139, issue C, 2016

Immigrant group size and political mobilization: Evidence from European migration to the United States pp. 1-12

Allison Shertzer

Repatriation taxes and outbound M&As pp. 13-27

Lars Feld, Martin Ruf, Uwe Scheuering, Ulrich Schreiber and Johannes Voget

Limit pricing and the (in)effectiveness of the carbon tax pp. 28-39

Saraly Andrade de Sa and Julien Daubanes

Cognitive performance in competitive environments: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 40-52

Julio González-Díaz and Ignacio Palacios-Huerta

Volume 138, issue C, 2016

Education and optimal dynamic taxation: The role of income-contingent student loans pp. 1-21

Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

It’s not just the thought that counts: An experimental study on the hidden cost of giving pp. 22-31

Xiaofei Pan and Erte Xiao

Allowing firms to choose between separate accounting and formula apportionment taxation pp. 32-42

Thomas Gresik

Household heterogeneity, aggregation, and the distributional impacts of environmental taxes pp. 43-57

Sebastian Rausch and Giacomo A. Schwarz

Taxing multinationals in the presence of internal capital markets pp. 58-71

Marko Koethenbuerger and Michael Stimmelmayr

Volume 137, issue C, 2016

Dynamic aspects of family transfers pp. 1-13

Kathleen McGarry

Corruption, norm violation and decay in social capital pp. 14-27

Ritwik Banerjee

The design of insurance coverage for medical products under imperfect competition pp. 28-37

David Bardey, Helmuth Cremer and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

Supply vs. demand under an affirmative action ban: Estimates from UC law schools pp. 38-50

Danny Yagan

Do tax incentives affect charitable contributions? Evidence from public charities' reported revenues pp. 51-69

Nicolas Duquette

The long-term impact of matching and rebate subsidies when public goods are impure: Field experimental evidence from the carbon offsetting market pp. 70-78

Martin Kesternich, Andreas Löschel and Daniel Römer