Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 229, issue C, 2024

Centralization and regulatory enforcement: Evidence from personnel authority reform in China

Dongmin Kong and Chenhao Liu

Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high

Hannah Liepmann and Clemente Pignatti

The effect of disability insurance receipt on mortality

Bernard Black, Eric French, Jeremy McCauley and Jae Song

Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements

Samuel Dodini, Jeff Larrimore and Anna Tranfaglia

Volume 228, issue C, 2023

Encouragement and distortionary effects of conditional cash transfers

Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Melanie Morten and Joeri Smits

The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts

Feng Chen and Douglas N. Harris

Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students

Wes Austin, David Figlio, Dan Goldhaber, Eric Hanushek, Tara Kilbride, Cory Koedel, Jaeseok Sean Lee, Jin Lou, Umut Özek, Eric Parsons, Steven G. Rivkin, Tim R. Sass and Katharine O. Strunk

What we pay in the shadows: Labor tax evasion, minimum wage hike and employment

Nicolas Gavoille and Anna Zasova

Complementarities in behavioral interventions: Evidence from a field experiment on resource conservation

Ximeng Fang, Lorenz Goette, Bettina Rockenbach, Matthias Sutter, Verena Tiefenbeck, Samuel Schoeb and Thorsten Staake

Organized crime, violence and support for the state

Gian Maria Campedelli, Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli and Paolo Pinotti

Volume 227, issue C, 2023

Increasing the take-up of public health services: An at-scale experiment on digital government

Sebastian Gallegos, Benjamin Roseth, Ana Cuesta and Mario Sanchez

Do housing regulations affect child development? Evidence and mechanisms

Han Li, Jiangyi Li, Yi Lu and Huihua Xie

Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering

Lavinia Piemontese

With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime

Pasquale Accardo, Giuseppe De Feo and Giacomo De Luca

Tax wedges, financial frictions and misallocation

Árpád Ábrahám, Piero Gottardi, Joachim Hubmer and Lukas Mayr

Kosher Pork

Allan Drazen and Ethan Ilzetzki

Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data

John Iselin, Taylor Mackay and Matthew Unrath

Bitcoin and carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from daily production decisions

Anna Papp, Douglas Almond and Shuang Zhang

News credibility and the quest for clicks

Kohei Kawamura and Mark T. Le Quement

The employment effects of collective wage bargaining

Bernardo Fanfani

The air quality and well-being effects of low emission zones

Luis Sarmiento, Nicole Wägner and Aleksandar Zaklan

Volume 226, issue C, 2023

Fertility and parental retirement

Julius Ilciukas

Hostel takeover: Living conditions, reference dependence, and the well-being of migrant workers

Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham and Huayu Xu

Behavioral cross-influence of a shadow tax bracket: Evidence from bunching where income tax liabilities start

Raphaël Lardeux

Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property

Rishi Sharma, Joel Slemrod and Michael Stimmelmayr

Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments

Philipp Lergetporer and Ludger Woessmann

The impact of policy awareness: Evidence from vehicle choices response to fiscal incentives

Davide Cerruti, Claudio Daminato and Massimo Filippini

Intergenerational income mobility in France: A comparative and geographic analysis

Gustave Kenedi and Louis Sirugue

Cleaning up the Great Lakes: Housing market impacts of removing legacy pollutants

Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michael R. Moore

Unemployment benefits and redundancies: Incidence and timing effects

Laura Khoury

Sequential agenda setting with strategic and informative voting

Jidong Chen

Using payroll taxes as a redistribution tool

Antoine Bozio, Thomas Breda and Malka Guillot

The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare

Sofie Cairo and Robert Mahlstedt

Effects of unemployment insurance duration on mental and physical health

Alexander Ahammer and Analisa Packham

The largest insurance program in history: Saving one million lives per year in China

Jonathan Gruber, Mengyun Lin and Junjian Yi

Volume 225, issue C, 2023

The value of relationships in healthcare

Adrienne Sabety

Spatial inequality of opportunity in West Africa

Luke Heath Milsom

The spillover effects of labor regulations on the structure of earnings and employment: Evidence from occupational licensing

Samuel Dodini

Minimum wage, social insurance mandate, and working hours

Ji Hwan Kim, Jungmin Lee and Kyungho Lee

Pareto-improving minimum corporate taxation

Shafik Hebous and Michael Keen

A mechanism for the efficient provision of Potential Pareto public goods

Eduardo Ferraz Castelo Branco Ferreira and César Mantilla

Where does opportunity knock? On doors that voted for the executive

Cameron A. Shelton

On the optimal reform of income support for single parents

Salvador Ortigueira and Nawid Siassi

Reservations and the politics of fear

Siwan Anderson and Patrick Francois

The electoral consequences of environmental accidents: Evidence from Chernobyl

Adrian Mehic

Tax competition with two tax instruments — and tax base erosion

Johannes Becker and John D. Wilson

The effect of market-based sourcing on labor outcomes

Anthony Welsch

The costs of bureaucracy and corruption at customs: Evidence from the computerization of imports in Colombia

Rachid Laajaj, Marcela Eslava and Tidiane Kinda

How much violence does football hooliganism cause?

Leander Andres, Marc Fabel and Helmut Rainer

Pass-through of subsidies to prices under limited competition: Evidence from Canada’s Nutrition North program

Tracey Galloway and Nicholas Li

How did federal aid to states and localities affect testing and vaccine delivery?

Jeffrey Clemens, Philip Hoxie, John Kearns and Stan Veuger

Occupations, retirement, and the value of disability insurance

Lindsay Jacobs

Wealthy Americans and redistribution: The role of fairness preferences

Alain Cohn, Lasse J. Jessen, Marko Klašnja and Paul Smeets

Congestion on the information superhighway: Inefficiencies in economics working papers

Lester Lusher, Wenni Yang and Scott Carrell

Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids

Keith Marzilli Ericson, Adam Sacarny and Annetta Zhou

Are students time constrained? Course load, GPA, and failing

Aaron Phipps and Alexander Amaya

The “Matthew effect” in rebates: How does VAT rebates allocation affect firm export performance

Bing Lu and Hong Ma

Earnings business cycles: The Covid recession, recovery, and policy response

Jeff Larrimore, Jacob Mortenson and David Splinter