Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Do stronger age discrimination laws make Social Security reforms more effective? pp. 1-16: David Neumark and Joanne Song
Does raising the early retirement age increase employment of older workers? pp. 17-32: Stefan Staubli and Josef Zweimüller
Long-term care policy, myopia and redistribution pp. 33-43: Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder
Perverse reverse price competition: Average wholesale prices and Medicaid pharmaceutical spending pp. 44-62: Abby Alpert, Mark Duggan and Judith K. Hellerstein
Can higher-achieving peers explain the benefits to attending selective schools? Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago pp. 63-77: C. Kirabo Jackson
Public funding of higher education pp. 78-89: Jean-Marie Viaene and Itzhak Zilcha
Certification programs and north-south trade pp. 90-104: Andrea Podhorsky

Tax bunching, income shifting and self-employment pp. 1-18: Daniel le Maire and Bertel Schjerning
Social networks and externalities from gift exchange: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 19-30: Janet Currie, Wanchuan Lin and Juanjuan Meng
Scale and transfers in international emissions offset programs pp. 31-46: Arthur van Benthem and Suzi Kerr
The effect of transport policies on car use: Evidence from Latin American cities pp. 47-62: Francisco Gallego, Juan-Pablo Montero and Christian Salas
Impact of bilingual education programs on limited English proficient students and their peers: Regression discontinuity evidence from Texas pp. 63-78: Aimee Chin, N. Meltem Daysal and Scott Imberman
Work norms, social insurance and the allocation of talent pp. 79-92: Giacomo Corneo
Term limits and electoral accountability pp. 93-102: Michael Smart and Daniel M. Sturm

Optimal pricing of flights and passengers at congested airports and the efficiency of atomistic charges pp. 1-13: Hugo E. Silva and Erik Verhoef
(Un)Informed charitable giving pp. 14-26: Silvana Krasteva and Huseyin Yildirim
The regressive demands of demand-driven development pp. 27-41: Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler
Asymmetric and non-atmospheric consumption externalities, and efficient consumption taxation pp. 42-56: Paul Eckerstorfer and Ron Wendner
A natural experiment in school accountability: The impact of school performance information on pupil progress pp. 57-67: Simon Burgess, Deborah Wilson and Jack Worth
The good, the bad, and the civil society pp. 68-76: Jiahua Che, Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao
Tax incidence with strategic firms in the soft drink market pp. 77-88: Céline Bonnet and Vincent Réquillart
Tax and the city — A theory of local tax competition pp. 89-100: Eckhard Janeba and Steffen Osterloh
Integrity versus access? The effect of federal financial aid availability on postsecondary enrollment pp. 101-114: Rajeev Darolia

Curbing coca cultivation in Colombia — A framed field experiment pp. 1-10: Marcela Ibanez and Peter Martinsson
Mergers in fiscal federalism pp. 11-22: Marie-Laure Breuillé and Skerdilajda Zanaj
Strategy-proofness and stability of the Boston mechanism: An almost impossibility result pp. 23-29: Taro Kumano
Unit tax versus ad valorem tax: A tax competition model with cross-border shopping pp. 30-38: Hiroshi Aiura and Hikaru Ogawa
Consumer biases and mutual ownership pp. 39-57: Ryan Bubb and Alex Kaufman
Optimal linear and two-bracket income taxes with idiosyncratic earnings risk pp. 58-71: Minchung Hsu and C.C. Yang
Bidding to give in the field pp. 72-85: Sander Onderstal, Arthur J.H.C. Schram and Adriaan R. Soetevent
The impact of non-parental child care on child development: Evidence from the summer participation “dip” pp. 86-105: Chris M. Herbst
The dynamics of urban traffic congestion and the price of parking pp. 106-115: Mogens Fosgerau and André de Palma
Students' perceptions of teacher biases: Experimental economics in schools pp. 116-130: Amine Ouazad and Lionel Page
Adaptation, anticipation and social interaction in happiness: An integrated error-correction approach pp. 131-149: Maarten Vendrik

Optimal districting with endogenous party platforms pp. 1-13: Emanuele Bracco
Patent office governance and patent examination quality pp. 14-25: Pierre Picard and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
Language and government coordination: An experimental study of communication in the announcement game pp. 26-39: Marina Agranov and Andrew Schotter
Does retiree health insurance encourage early retirement? pp. 40-51: Steven Nyce, Sylvester J. Schieber, John B. Shoven, Sita Slavov and David A. Wise
The marginal rate of corruption in public programs: Evidence from India pp. 52-64: Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar
When the cat is near, the mice won't play: The effect of external examiners in Italian schools pp. 65-77: Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

Political competition and Mirrleesian income taxation: A first pass pp. 1-14: Felix J. Bierbrauer and Pierre Boyer
“Thou shalt not covet”: Prohibitions, temptation and moral values pp. 15-28: Matteo Cervellati and Paolo Vanin
The role of uncertainty and learning for the success of international climate agreements pp. 29-43: Michael Finus and Pedro Pintassilgo
Eliciting information from a large population pp. 44-54: Kohei Kawamura
Bargaining around cost–benefit standards pp. 55-67: Ehud Guttel and Shmuel Leshem
Prevention against equality? pp. 68-84: Marc Fleurbaey and Gregory Ponthiere
The heterogeneous impact of conditional cash transfers pp. 85-96: Sebastian Galiani and Patrick McEwan

Health insurance as a two-part pricing contract pp. 1-12: Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood
VAT rebates and export performance in China: Firm-level evidence pp. 13-22: Piyush Chandra and Cheryl Long
Do countries compensate firms for international wage differentials? pp. 23-36: Ferdinand Mittermaier and Johannes Rincke
Self-enforcing environmental agreements and international trade pp. 37-50: Thomas Eichner and Rüdiger Pethig
WIC in your neighborhood: New evidence on the impacts of geographic access to clinics pp. 51-69: Maya Rossin-Slater