Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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Volume 136, issue C, 2016

Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics. The role of immigration in shaping natives' voting behavior pp. 1-13

Guglielmo Barone, Alessio D'Ignazio, Guido de Blasio and Paolo Naticchioni

Optimal income taxation when asset taxation is limited pp. 14-29

Arpad Abraham, Sebastian Koehne and Nicola Pavoni

Conformism and self-selection in social networks pp. 30-44

Vincent Boucher

The costs and benefits of balanced budget rules: Lessons from a political economy model of fiscal policy pp. 45-61

Marina Azzimonti, Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate

Where does voucher funding go? How large-scale subsidy programs affect private-school revenue, enrollment, and prices pp. 62-85

Daniel Hungerman and Kevin Rinz

Volume 135, issue C, 2016

Crime and conspicuous consumption pp. 1-14

Daniel Mejia and Pascual Restrepo

Optimal redistribution and monitoring of labor supply pp. 15-31

Floris T. Zoutman and Bas Jacobs

Tax policy and the financing of innovation pp. 32-46

Luis A. Bryce Campodonico, Roberto Bonfatti and Luigi Pisano

The long-run consequences of Chernobyl: Evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare pp. 47-60

Alexander Danzer and Natalia Danzer

Do consumers recognize the value of fuel economy? Evidence from used car prices and gasoline price fluctuations pp. 61-73

James Sallee, Sarah West and Wei Fan

Higher taxes, more evasion? Evidence from border differentials in TV license fees pp. 74-86

Melissa Berger, Gerlinde Fellner-Röhling, Rupert Sausgruber and Christian Traxler

The impact of depreciation savings on investment: Evidence from the corporate Alternative Minimum Tax pp. 87-104

Jongsang Park

Volume 134, issue C, 2016

The effects of induced emotions on pro-social behaviour pp. 1-8

Michalis Drouvelis and Brit Grosskopf

Tax compliance and psychic costs: Behavioral experimental evidence using a physiological marker pp. 9-18

Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, Cameron Newton, Andrea Ristl, Markus Schaffner and Benno Torgler

Income redistribution in open economies pp. 19-34

Áron Tóbiás

Voting and optimal provision of a public good pp. 35-41

Ran Shao and Lin Zhou

Sending the pork home: Birth town bias in transfers to Italian municipalities pp. 42-52

Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto

Experiencing breast cancer at the workplace pp. 53-66

Giulio Zanella and Ritesh Banerjee

Political self-serving bias and redistribution pp. 67-74

Bruno Deffains, Romain Espinosa and Christian Thöni

Mass media, instrumental information, and electoral accountability pp. 75-84

Christian Bruns and Oliver Himmler

Hierarchical accountability in government pp. 85-99

Razvan Vlaicu and Alexander Whalley

How to make the metropolitan area work? Neither big government, nor laissez-faire pp. 100-113

Carl Gaigne, Stephane Riou and Jacques Thisse

Divided majority and information aggregation: Theory and experiment pp. 114-128

Laurent Bouton, Micael Castanheira and Aniol Llorente-Saguer

Volume 133, issue C, 2016

Dynasties in professions and the role of rents and regulation: Evidence from Italian pharmacies pp. 1-10

Sauro Mocetti

Traffic accidents and the London congestion charge pp. 11-22

Colin Green, John Heywood and María Navarro

The effect of tax enforcement on tax elasticities: Evidence from charitable contributions in France pp. 23-40

Gabrielle Fack and Camille Landais

The effect of vehicle fuel economy standards on technology adoption pp. 41-63

Thomas Klier and Joshua Linn

Malapportionment and multilateral bargaining: An experiment pp. 64-74

Emanuel I. Vespa

Teacher pay and school productivity: Exploiting wage regulation pp. 75-89

Jack Britton and Carol Propper

Intensive and extensive margins of fertility, capital accumulation, and economic welfare pp. 90-110

Akira Momota

Volume 132, issue C, 2015

Foreign aid and voting in international organizations: Evidence from the IWC pp. 1-12

Christian Dippel

Empowering poor people through public information? Lessons from a movie in rural India pp. 13-22

Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle, Puja Dutta and Rinku Murgai

Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions pp. 23-31

Patrick Schmitz

Reexamining the consumption smoothing benefits of Unemployment Insurance pp. 32-50

Chloe East and Elira Kuka

Norm conformity across societies pp. 51-65

Moti Michaeli and Daniel Spiro

The unintended consequences of internet diffusion: Evidence from Malaysia pp. 66-78

Luke Miner

Does expansion of higher education lead to trickle-down growth? pp. 79-94

Sebastian Böhm, Volker Grossmann and Thomas Steger

Political accountability and sequential policymaking pp. 95-108

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Dimitri Landa

Volume 131, issue C, 2015

Professional norms and physician behavior: Homo oeconomicus or homo hippocraticus? pp. 1-11

Iris Kesternich, Heiner Schumacher and Joachim Winter

The value of technology improvements in games with externalities: A fresh look at offsetting behavior pp. 12-20

Michael Hoy and Mattias K Polborn

Income receipt and mortality — Evidence from Swedish public sector employees pp. 21-32

Elvira Andersson, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

Luck, choice and responsibility — An experimental study of fairness views pp. 33-40

Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjørn-Atle Reme and Erik Sørensen

Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market pp. 41-57

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto

Majority choice of tax systems in single- and multi-jurisdictional economies pp. 58-70

Stephen Calabrese, Dennis Epple and Richard Romano

Keeping up with the Joneses, the Smiths and the Tanakas: On international tax coordination and social comparisons pp. 71-86

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

More and cheaper haircuts after VAT cut? On the efficiency and incidence of service sector consumption taxes pp. 87-100

Tuomas Kosonen

Local natural resource curse? pp. 101-114

Lars-Erik Borge, Pernille Parmer and Ragnar Torvik

Optimal tax salience pp. 115-123

Jacob Goldin

Quantity restrictions on advertising, commercial media bias, and welfare pp. 124-141

Anna Kerkhof and Johannes Münster

Unsticking the flypaper effect in an uncertain world pp. 142-155

Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin