Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 96, issue 11, 2012

The effect of insurance on emergency room visits: An analysis of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform pp. 893-908

Sarah Miller

The impact of health care reform on hospital and preventive care: Evidence from Massachusetts pp. 909-929

Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

The impact of thin-capitalization rules on the capital structure of multinational firms pp. 930-938

Thiess Buettner, Michael Overesch, Ulrich Schreiber and Georg Wamser

Nature of human capital, technology and ownership of public goods pp. 939-945

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

International taxation and multinational firm location decisions pp. 946-958

Salvador Barrios, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven and Gaëtan Nicodème

The case for presenteeism — Evidence from Norway's sickness insurance program pp. 959-972

Simen Markussen, Arnstein Mykletun and Knut Røed

The demand for enhanced annuities pp. 973-980

Petra Steinorth

Car notches: Strategic automaker responses to fuel economy policy pp. 981-999

James Sallee and Joel Slemrod

Teaching new markets old tricks: The effects of subsidized investment on low-income neighborhoods pp. 1000-1014

Matthew Freedman

Migration of skilled workers: Policy interaction between host and source countries pp. 1015-1024

Slobodan Djajić, Michael Michael and Alexandra Vinogradova

Estimating the permanent income elasticity of government expenditures: Evidence on Wagner's law based on oil price shocks pp. 1025-1035

Markus Brückner, Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein

Gun for hire: Delegated enforcement and peer punishment in public goods provision pp. 1036-1046

James Andreoni and Laura Gee

Are rules-based government programs shielded from special-interest politics? Evidence from revenue-sharing transfers in Brazil pp. 1047-1060

Stephan Litschig

Reassessment of the Tiebout model pp. 1063-1078

Robin Boadway and Jean-François Tremblay

The rise of the states: U.S. fiscal decentralization in the postwar period pp. 1079-1091

Katherine Baicker, Jeffrey Clemens and Monica Singhal

Growing state–federal conflicts in environmental policy: The role of market-based regulation pp. 1092-1099

Roberton Williams

Income redistribution in a Federal system of governments pp. 1100-1109

Roger Gordon and Julie Cullen

Reprint of: The insurance value of state tax-and-transfer programs pp. 1110-1128

Hilary Hoynes and Erzo Luttmer

Tiebout sorting and neighborhood stratification pp. 1129-1143

Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan

Suburbanization, demographic change and the consequences for school finance pp. 1144-1153

David Figlio and Deborah Fletcher

Volume 96, issue 9-10, 2012

Rank as an inherent incentive: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 645-650

Anh Tran and Richard Zeckhauser

Redistribution and the notion of social status pp. 651-657

Ennio Bilancini and Leonardo Boncinelli

The private provision of excludable public goods: An inefficiency result pp. 658-669

Tore Ellingsen and Elena Paltseva

The influence of financial status on the effectiveness of environmental enforcement pp. 670-684

Dietrich Earnhart and Kathleen Segerson

International Environmental Agreements with mixed strategies and investment pp. 685-697

Fuhai Hong and Larry Karp

How low business tax rates attract MNE activity: Municipality-level evidence from Germany pp. 698-711

Sascha Becker, Peter Egger and Valeria Merlo

Corrupting learning pp. 712-726

Claudio Ferraz, Frederico Finan and Diana Moreira

Optimal taxation, critical-level utilitarianism and economic growth pp. 727-738

Luca Spataro and Thomas I. Renström

Optimal minimum wage policy in competitive labor markets pp. 739-749

David Lee and Emmanuel Saez

Do health plans risk-select? An audit study on Germany's Social Health Insurance pp. 750-759

Sebastian Bauhoff

The distribution of lifetime Medicare benefits, taxes and premiums: Evidence from individual level data pp. 760-772

Andrew J. Rettenmaier

Does immigration affect public education expenditures? Quasi-experimental evidence pp. 773-783

Biagio Speciale

Natural disasters in a two-sector model of endogenous growth pp. 784-796

Masako Ikefuji and Ryo Horii

Normative conflict and feuds: The limits of self-enforcement pp. 797-807

Nikos Nikiforakis, Charles Noussair and Tom Wilkening

Individual evolutionary learning, other-regarding preferences, and the voluntary contributions mechanism pp. 808-823

Jasmina Arifovic and John Ledyard

Evaluating the efficiency and equity of federal fiscal equalization pp. 824-839

David Albouy

The distributional effects of pollution regulations: Do renters fully pay for cleaner air? pp. 840-852

Corbett Grainger

On the desirability of taxing capital income in optimal social insurance pp. 853-868

Bas Jacobs and Dirk Schindler

Valuing public goods using happiness data: The case of air quality pp. 869-880

Arik Levinson

Do unemployed workers benefit from enterprise zones? The French experience pp. 881-892

Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac and Harris Selod

Volume 96, issue 7-8, 2012

The impact of an adult education voucher program: Evidence from a randomized field experiment pp. 569-583

Guido Schwerdt, Dolores Messer, Ludger Woessmann and Stefan Wolter

Tax competition among local governments: Evidence from a property tax reform in Finland pp. 584-595

Teemu Lyytikäinen

Are tax-financed contributions to a public good completely crowded-out? Experimental evidence pp. 596-603

Timothy Gronberg, R. Andrew Luccasen, Theodore Turocy and John van Huyck

Consumption, retirement and social security: Evaluating the efficiency of reform that encourages longer careers pp. 615-634

John Laitner and Dan Silverman

Microfoundations of social capital pp. 635-643

Christian Thöni, Jean-Robert Tyran and Erik Wengström

Volume 96, issue 7, 2012

Mobility, housing markets, and schools: Estimating the effects of inter-district choice programs pp. 604-614

Eric Brunner, Sung-Woo Cho and Randall Reback

Volume 96, issue 5, 2012

School competition and teacher labor markets: Evidence from charter school entry in North Carolina pp. 431-448

C. Kirabo Jackson

Fiscal federalism and interjurisdictional externalities: New results and an application to US Air pollution pp. 449-464

Spencer Banzhaf and Benjamin Chupp

Policy effects in hyperbolic vs. exponential models of consumption and retirement pp. 465-473

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity? pp. 474-484

Anders Bjorklund, Jesper Roine and Daniel Waldenström

The tax evasion social multiplier: Evidence from Italy pp. 485-494

Roberto Galbiati and Giulio Zanella

Workers' compensation and consumption smoothing pp. 495-508

Erin Bronchetti

Optimal unemployment insurance for older workers pp. 509-519

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot, Sébastien Ménard and Thepthida Sopraseuth

A welfare measure of “offset effects” in health insurance pp. 520-523

Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire

The option to wait in collective decisions and optimal majority rules pp. 524-540

Matthias Messner and Mattias K Polborn

Will you civil union me? Taxation and civil unions in France pp. 541-552

Marion Leturcq

Reality versus propaganda in the formation of beliefs about privatization pp. 553-567

Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Volume 96, issue 3, 2012

The intergenerational conflict over the provision of public education pp. 255-268

Dennis Epple, Richard Romano and Holger Sieg

Does the size of the legislature affect the size of government? Evidence from two natural experiments pp. 269-278

Per Pettersson-Lidbom

Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis: US vs. Europe pp. 279-294

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl

Vertical tax competition and consumption externalities in a federation with lobbying pp. 295-305

Alejandro Esteller-Moré, Umberto Galmarini and Leonzio Rizzo

Disability policy and the labor market: Evidence from a natural experiment in Canada, 1998–2006 pp. 306-316

Michele Campolieti and Chris Riddell

The design of the university system pp. 317-330

Gianni De Fraja and Paola Valbonesi

Signaling and indirect taxation pp. 331-340

Tom Truyts

Sequential voting in large elections with multiple candidates pp. 341-348

Patrick Hummel

The tradeoff of the commons pp. 349-353

Randolph McAfee and Alan Miller

The struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds: Violence and public opinion in the Second Intifada pp. 354-368

David Jaeger, Esteban Klor, Sami Miaari and M. Daniele Paserman

Pay-to-play politics: Informational lobbying and contribution limits when money buys access pp. 369-386

Christopher Cotton

Are women pawns in the political game? Evidence from elections to the Spanish Senate pp. 387-399

Berta Esteve-Volart and Manuel Bagues

Optimal fiscal barriers to international economic integration in the presence of tax havens pp. 400-416

Niels Johannesen

The quantity and quality of teachers: Dynamics of the trade-off pp. 417-429

Gregory Gilpin and Michael Kaganovich

Volume 96, issue 1, 2012

Majority voting and the welfare implications of tax avoidance pp. 1-9

Christian Traxler

Lobbying, political competition, and local land supply: Recent evidence from Spain pp. 10-19

Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

Incumbency advantage and political campaign spending limits pp. 20-32

Ivan Pastine and Tuvana Pastine

Torture in counterterrorism: Agency incentives and slippery slopes pp. 33-41

Hugo M. Mialon, Sue Mialon and Maxwell B. Stinchcombe

Sunday liquor laws and crime pp. 42-52

Paul Heaton

Secessionism and minority protection in an uncertain world pp. 53-61

Vincent Anesi

Too much coal, too little oil pp. 62-77

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen

Independent auditors, bias, and political agency pp. 78-88

Patrick Warren

Nonparametric structural estimation of labor supply in the presence of censoring pp. 89-103

Che-Yuan Liang

Testing for asymmetric information in the viager market pp. 104-123

Philippe Février, Laurent Linnemer and Michael Visser

Dynamic models of residential segregation: An analytical solution pp. 124-141

Sébastian Grauwin, Florence Goffette-Nagot and Pablo Jensen

Costly transparency pp. 142-150

Justin Fox and Richard Van Weelden

Work incentives and the Food Stamp Program pp. 151-162

Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach

Low-level versus high-level equilibrium in public utility services pp. 163-172

Jon Strand

Single-sex schools, student achievement, and course selection: Evidence from rule-based student assignments in Trinidad and Tobago pp. 173-187

C. Kirabo Jackson

Split-award contracts with investment pp. 188-197

Jiong Gong, Jianpei Li and Randolph McAfee

Measuring the (income) effect of disability insurance generosity on labour market participation pp. 198-210

Olivier Marie and Judit Vall Castello

Genuine saving and the social cost of taxation pp. 211-217

Thomas Aronsson, Catia Cialani and Karl-Gustaf Löfgren

The politician and his banker — How to efficiently grant state aid pp. 218-225

Christa Hainz and Hendrik Hakenes

Technology of military conflict, military spending, and war pp. 226-236

Sung-Ha Hwang

Information asymmetry and equilibrium monitoring in education pp. 237-254

Maria Marta Ferreyra and Pierre Jinghong Liang