Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 125, issue C, 2015

Replacing churches and mason lodges? Tax exemptions and rural development pp. 1-15

Luc Behaghel, Adrien Lorenceau and Simon Quantin

Optimal trading ratios for pollution permit markets pp. 16-27

Stephen P. Holland and Andrew Yates

General revenue sharing and public sector unions pp. 28-45

Laura Feiveson

Charitable giving: Altruism has no limits pp. 46-53

Luciana Echazu and Diego Nocetti

Transaction costs, the opportunity cost of time and procrastination in charitable giving pp. 54-63

Stephen Knowles and Maroš Servátka

Interaction, protection and epidemics pp. 64-69

Sanjeev Goyal and Adrien Vigier

The occurrence of tax amnesties: Theory and evidence pp. 70-82

Ralph-C Bayer, Harald Oberhofer and Hannes Winner

The taxation of foreign profits: A unified view pp. 83-97

Michael Devereux, Clemens Fuest and Ben Lockwood

The effect of Beijing's driving restrictions on pollution and economic activity pp. 98-115

V. Viard and Shihe Fu

Reforming an asymmetric union: On the virtues of dual tier capital taxation pp. 116-127

Andreas Haufler and Christoph Lülfesmann

Long-term care insurance, informal care, and medical expenditures pp. 128-142

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim and Wilfredo Lim

Volume 124, issue C, 2015

Interpreting pre-trends as anticipation: Impact on estimated treatment effects from tort reform pp. 1-17

Anup Malani and Julian Reif

The architecture of federations: Constitutions, bargaining, and moral hazard pp. 18-29

Christoph Luelfesmann, Anke Kessler and Gordon Myers

The employment effects of terminating disability benefits pp. 30-43

Timothy Moore

What is the optimal speed limit on freeways? pp. 44-62

Arthur van Benthem

Out of work and into school: Labor market policies and college enrollment during the Great Recession pp. 63-73

Andrew Barr and Sarah Turner

De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in preferences and optimal redistribution pp. 74-80

Benjamin Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl

First-day criminal recidivism pp. 81-90

Ignacio Munyo and Martín Rossi

Nutrition and cognitive achievement: An evaluation of the School Breakfast Program pp. 91-104

David Frisvold

Women's schooling and fertility under low female labor force participation: Evidence from mobility restrictions in Israel pp. 105-121

Victor Lavy and Alexander Zablotsky

Volume 123, issue C, 2015

Public child care and mothers' labor supply—Evidence from two quasi-experiments pp. 1-16

Stefan Bauernschuster and Martin Schlotter

Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system pp. 17-29

Farzana Afridi, Sherry Li and Ren Yufei

Corruption and socially optimal entry pp. 30-41

Rabah Amir and Chrystie Burr

Desert and inequity aversion in teams pp. 42-54

David Gill and Rebecca Stone

Reducing binge drinking? The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany pp. 55-77

Jan Marcus and Thomas Siedler

Intergovernmental grants as signals and the alignment effect: Theory and evidence pp. 78-91

Emanuele Bracco, Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli and Michela Redoano

School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools pp. 92-110

Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

Volume 122, issue C, 2015

Experimentally estimated impacts of school vouchers on college enrollment and degree attainment pp. 1-12

Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson

Substance-abuse treatment and mortality pp. 13-30

Isaac D. Swensen

Optimal taxation in a habit formation economy pp. 31-39

Sebastian Koehne and Moritz Kuhn

Exploring mortgage interest deduction reforms: An equilibrium sorting model with endogenous tenure choice pp. 40-54

Amy Binner and Brett Day

Emotion venting and punishment in public good experiments pp. 55-67

David Dickinson and David Masclet

The effect of pollution on labor supply: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexico City pp. 68-79

Rema Hanna and Paulina Oliva

Leadership and the voluntary provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia pp. 80-93

B. Kelsey Jack and Maria Recalde

Optimal disability insurance with unobservable skill heterogeneity pp. 94-109

Kyung-woo Lee

Housing markets and residential segregation: Impacts of the Michigan school finance reform on inter- and intra-district sorting pp. 110-132

Rajashri Chakrabarti and Joydeep Roy

Volume 121, issue C, 2015

Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model pp. 1-13

Volker Meier and Ioana Schiopu

Regulating prostitution: A health risk approach pp. 14-31

Giovanni Immordino and F.F. Russo

The tenuous relationship between effort and performance pay pp. 32-39

Ola Kvaløy and Trond Olsen

Presidential coattails versus the median voter: Senator selection in US elections pp. 40-51

Yosh Halberstam and B. Pablo Montagnes

Cursed beliefs with common-value public goods pp. 52-65

Caleb Cox

A note on equilibrium leadership in tax competition models pp. 66-68

Jean Hindriks and Yukihiro Nishimura

Partial enclosure of the commons pp. 69-78

Christopher Costello, Nicolas Querou and Agnes Tomini

Universal coverage with supply-side reform: The impact on medical expenditure risk and utilization in Thailand pp. 79-94

Supon Limwattananon, Sven Neelsen, Owen O'Donnell, Phusit Prakongsai, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Vuthiphan Vongmongkol

To commit or not to commit? An experimental investigation of pre-commitments in bargaining situations with asymmetric information pp. 95-105

Sönke Hoffmann, Benedikt Mihm and Joachim Weimann

Politicians as experts, electoral control, and fiscal restraints pp. 106-116

Uwe Dulleck and Berthold Wigger

Public health insurance expansions and hospital technology adoption pp. 117-131

Seth Freedman, Haizhen Lin and Kosali Simon

Volume 120, issue C, 2014

No margin, no mission? A field experiment on incentives for public service delivery pp. 1-17

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack

The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices pp. 18-31

Christopher A. Neilson and Seth Zimmerman

The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption: Evidence from a “Xeroxed” exam pp. 32-47

Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl and Andreea Mitrut

Are supply-side drug control efforts effective? Evaluating OTC regulations targeting methamphetamine precursors pp. 48-61

Carlos Dobkin, Nancy Nicosia and Matthew Weinberg

On the political economy of educational vouchers pp. 62-73

Dennis Epple and Richard Romano

Politicians, bureaucrats and targeted redistribution pp. 74-83

Ruben Enikolopov

Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs pp. 84-96

Antony Millner, Hélène Ollivier and Leo Simon

Media slant against foreign owners: Downsizing pp. 97-106

Guido Friebel and Matthias Heinz

Tax incidence for fragile financial markets pp. 107-125

Felix Bierbrauer

Soothing politics pp. 126-133

Raphaël Levy

Understanding the nature of cooperation variability pp. 134-143

Toke R. Fosgaard, Lars Gårn Hansen and Erik Wengström

Extortion and political-risk insurance pp. 144-156

Frederic Koessler and Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky

Procurement and predation: Dynamic sourcing from financially constrained suppliers pp. 157-168

Malin Arve

Dynamic regulation design without payments: The importance of timing pp. 169-180

Raphael Boleslavsky and David Kelly

Testing motives for charitable giving: A revealed-preference methodology with experimental evidence pp. 181-192

Rahul Deb, Robert Gazzale and Matthew Kotchen

Electoral vulnerability and size of local governments: Evidence from voting on municipal mergers pp. 193-204

Ari Hyytinen, Tuukka Saarimaa and Janne Tukiainen

Public insurance expansions and the health of immigrant and native children pp. 205-219

Erin Bronchetti

On cooperation in open communities pp. 220-230

Özgür Gürerk, Bernd Irlenbusch and Bettina Rockenbach

The provision point mechanism with refund bonuses pp. 231-234

Robertas Zubrickas