Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 93, issue 11-12, 2009

Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory pp. 1119-1124

Fabrizio Adriani and Silvia Sonderegger

Are labels effective against child labor? pp. 1125-1130

Jean-Marie Baland and Cédric Duprez

Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence pp. 1131-1143

Ralph-C Bayer and Frank Cowell

War and local collective action in Sierra Leone pp. 1144-1157

John Bellows and Edward Miguel

Competitive rivalry, social disposition, and subjective well-being: An experiment pp. 1158-1167

Jordi Brandts, Arno Riedl and Frans van Winden

Separability and public finance pp. 1168-1174

Stephane Gauthier and Guy Laroque

Terror and the costs of crime pp. 1175-1188

Eric Gould and Guy Stecklov

Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France pp. 1189-1207

Arnaud Lefranc, Nicolas Pistolesi and Alain Trannoy

Labor supply responses to marginal Social Security benefits: Evidence from discontinuities pp. 1208-1223

Jeffrey Liebman, Erzo Luttmer and David G. Seif

Labor supply effects of the recent social security benefit cuts: Empirical estimates using cohort discontinuities pp. 1224-1233

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform pp. 1234-1253

Barbara Petrongolo

Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition pp. 1254-1260

Wolfram Richter

Tax competition with parasitic tax havens pp. 1261-1270

Joel Slemrod and John Wilson

Do binding agreements solve the social dilemma? pp. 1271-1282

Sylvie Thoron, Emmanuel Sol and Marc Willinger

Corrigendum to "Disruption versus Tiebout improvement: The costs and benefits of switching schools" [Journal of Public Economics Volume 88 (2004), pages 1721-1746] pp. 1283-1284

Eric Hanushek, John Kain and Steven Rivkin

Volume 93, issue 9-10, 2009

Optimal policy and the risk properties of human capital reconsidered pp. 1017-1026

Dan Anderberg

Incorporating affirmative action into the welfare state pp. 1027-1035

Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth and Efraim Sadka

Whatever you say, your reputation precedes you: Observation and cheap talk in the trust game pp. 1036-1044

Juergen Bracht and Nick Feltovich

How accountability pressure on failing schools affects student achievement pp. 1045-1057

Hanley Chiang

Which countries become tax havens? pp. 1058-1068

Dhammika Dharmapala and James Hines

Public sector performance measurement and stakeholder support pp. 1069-1077

David Figlio and Lawrence Kenny

Democracy, collective action and intra-elite conflict pp. 1078-1089

Sayantan Ghosal and Eugenio Proto

The life insurance market: Asymmetric information revisited pp. 1090-1097

Daifeng He

Optimal nonlinear income taxation with learning-by-doing pp. 1098-1110

Alan Krause

How responsive are charitable donors to requests to give? pp. 1111-1117

Barış Yörük

Volume 93, issue 7-8, 2009

Should we tax or cap political contributions? A lobbying model with policy favors and access pp. 831-842

Christopher Cotton

Propensities to engage in and punish corrupt behavior: Experimental evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore pp. 843-851

Lisa Cameron, Ananish Chaudhuri, Nisvan Erkal and Lata Gangadharan

A note on the Bourguignon-Fields class of poverty indices pp. 852-854

Lucio Esposito and Peter Lambert

Tax structures in developing countries: Many puzzles and a possible explanation pp. 855-866

Roger Gordon and Wei Li

Labor supply elasticity and social security reform pp. 867-878

Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Sagiri Kitao

Assessing policies to equalize opportunity using an equilibrium model of educational and occupational choices pp. 879-898

Michael Keane and John Roemer

Can good projects succeed in bad communities? pp. 899-916

Asim Khwaja

Targeting public goods to the poor in a segregated economy: An empirical analysis of central mandates in rural India pp. 917-930

Anjini Kochar, Kesar Singh and Sukhwinder Singh

Escaping epidemics through migration? Quarantine measures under incomplete information about infection risk pp. 931-938

Alice Mesnard and Paul Seabright

International commodity taxation in the presence of unemployment pp. 939-949

Simone Moriconi and Yasuhiro Sato

Corruption perceptions vs. corruption reality pp. 950-964

Benjamin Olken

School tracking and intergenerational income mobility: Evidence from the Finnish comprehensive school reform pp. 965-973

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Sari Pekkala Kerr

The long-run determinants of inequality: What can we learn from top income data? pp. 974-988

Jesper Roine, Jonas Vlachos and Daniel Waldenström

Political constraints to growth in an economic union pp. 989-997

Michele Ruta

Does the diversity of human capital increase GDP? A comparison of education systems pp. 998-1007

Katsuya Takii and Ryuichi Tanaka

AIDS treatment and intrahousehold resource allocation: Children's nutrition and schooling in Kenya pp. 1008-1015

Joshua Graff Zivin, Harsha Thirumurthy and Markus Goldstein

Volume 93, issue 5-6, 2009

Giving overseas and public policy pp. 647-653

Anthony Atkinson

The effects of low income housing tax credit developments on neighborhoods pp. 654-666

Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Justin Marion

A note on optimal income taxation, public goods provision and robust mechanism design pp. 667-670

Felix Bierbrauer

Family background and income during the rise of the welfare state: Brother correlations in income for Swedish men born 1932-1968 pp. 671-680

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and Matthew Lindquist

Price vs. quantity-based approaches to airport congestion management pp. 681-690

Jan Brueckner

A theory of tolerance pp. 691-702

Giacomo Corneo and Olivier Jeanne

Taxes, institutions and foreign diversification opportunities pp. 703-714

Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

A theory of self-fulfilling political expectations pp. 715-720

Lars Frisell

Do merging local governments free ride on their counterparts when facing boundary reform? pp. 721-728

Björn Tyrefors

Crowd-out and diversity pp. 729-740

Daniel Hungerman

Public provision of private child goods pp. 741-751

Masako Kimura and Daishin Yasui

A spatial merger estimator with an application to school district consolidation pp. 752-765

Nora Gordon and Brian Knight

The response of firms to eligibility thresholds: Evidence from the Japanese value-added tax pp. 766-775

Kazuki Onji

Adverse selection in annuity markets: Evidence from the British Life Annuity Act of 1808 pp. 776-784

Casey Rothschild

The tragedy of the commons revisited: The importance of group decision-making pp. 785-797

Joris Gillet, Arthur Schram and Joep Sonnemans

Rebate rules in threshold public good provision pp. 798-806

Michael Spencer, Stephen Swallow, Jason Shogren and John List

Segregation and Black political efficacy pp. 807-822

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat and Ebonya Washington

Junk-food, home cooking, physical activity and obesity: The effect of the fat tax and the thin subsidy pp. 823-830

Gideon Yaniv, Odelia Rosin and Yossef (Yossi) Tobol

Volume 93, issue 3-4, 2009

Political rents in a non-corrupt democracy pp. 355-372

Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos

Campaign finance regulation with competing interest groups pp. 373-391

Gergely Ujhelyi

Getting the word out: Enforcement information dissemination and compliance behavior pp. 392-402

James Alm, Betty R. Jackson and Michael McKee

The effect of police intelligence on group violence: Evidence from reassignments in Sweden pp. 403-411

Panu Poutvaara and Mikael Priks

Love, hate and murder: Commitment devices in violent relationships pp. 412-428

Anna Aizer and Pedro Dal B

Providing public goods in the absence of strong institutions pp. 429-439

Anke Gerber and Philipp Wichardt

Public goods provision and redistributive taxation pp. 440-453

Neslihan Uler

Crowding out of private support to the elderly: Evidence from a demogrant in Mexico pp. 454-463

Laura Juarez

On the optimality of a minimum wage: New insights from optimal tax theory pp. 464-481

Mathias Hungerbühler and Etienne Lehmann

A theory of employment guarantees: Contestability, credibility and distributional concerns pp. 482-497

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur

The effect of redistribution on migration: Evidence from the Israeli kibbutz pp. 498-511

Ran Abramitzky

Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas? pp. 512-528

Shaohua Chen, Ren Mu and Martin Ravallion

Does welfare policy affect residential choices? An empirical investigation accounting for policy endogeneity pp. 529-540

Jon Fiva

Innovation and the welfare effects of public drug insurance pp. 541-548

Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood

Policymakers' horizon and the sustainability of international cooperation pp. 549-558

Paola Conconi and Nicolas Sahuguet

The general equilibrium effects of fiscal policy: Estimates for the Euro area pp. 559-585

Lorenzo Forni, Libero Monteforte and Luca Sessa

Retirement, pensions, and ageing pp. 586-604

Ben Heijdra and Ward Romp

Optimal social security in a dynastic model with human capital externalities, fertility and endogenous growth pp. 605-619

Siew Ling Yew and Jie Zhang

Valuing flood disasters using the life satisfaction approach pp. 620-633

Simon Luechinger and Paul Raschky

Should civil servants be restricted in wage bargaining? A mixed-duopoly approach pp. 634-646

Junichiro Ishida and Noriaki Matsushima

Volume 93, issue 1-2, 2009

Dictators and oligarchs: A dynamic theory of contested property rights pp. 1-13

Sergei Guriev and Konstantin Sonin

Political decentralization and corruption: Evidence from around the world pp. 14-34

C. Simon Fan, Chen Lin and Daniel Treisman

Do large cabinets favor large governments? Evidence on the fiscal commons problem for Swiss Cantons pp. 35-47

Christoph Schaltegger and Lars Feld

Collective contests for commons and club goods pp. 48-55

Shmuel Nitzan and Kaoru Ueda

The effect of information on the bidding and survival of entrants in procurement auctions pp. 56-72

Dakshina De Silva, Georgia Kosmopoulou and Carlos Lamarche

Crime, punishment, and prejudice pp. 73-84

Phil Curry and Tilman Klumpp

Does the certainty of arrest reduce domestic violence? Evidence from mandatory and recommended arrest laws pp. 85-98

Radha Iyengar

The limit of oversight in policing: Evidence from the 2001 Cincinnati riot pp. 99-113

Lan Shi

The impact of the judiciary on entrepreneurship: Evaluation of Pakistan's "Access to Justice Programme" pp. 114-125

Matthieu Chemin

What does tax aggressiveness signal? Evidence from stock price reactions to news about tax shelter involvement pp. 126-141

Michelle Hanlon and Joel Slemrod

Dividend taxation and intertemporal tax arbitrage pp. 142-159

Anton Korinek and Joseph Stiglitz

The taxman tools up: An event history study of the introduction of the personal income tax pp. 160-175

Toke Aidt and Peter Jensen

Two-sector perspectives on the effects of payroll tax cuts and their financing pp. 176-190

Alberto Petrucci and Edmund Phelps

The trajectory of wealth in retirement pp. 191-208

David Love, Michael Palumbo and Paul A. Smith

Inequality in Indonesia: What can we learn from top incomes? pp. 209-212

Andrew Leigh and Pierre van der Eng

Openness, country size, and government size: Additional evidence from a large cross-country panel pp. 213-218

Rati Ram

The effect of pre-primary education on primary school performance pp. 219-234

Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Paul Gertler

Does prenatal WIC participation improve birth outcomes? New evidence from Florida pp. 235-245

David Figlio, Sarah Hamersma and Jeffrey Roth

Born on the first of July: An (un)natural experiment in birth timing pp. 246-263

Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh

Community rating and the market for private non-group health insurance pp. 264-279

Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Ithai Z. Lurie

Altruism, fertility, and the value of children: Health policy evaluation and intergenerational welfare pp. 280-295

Javier Birchenall and Rodrigo Soares

Tax incentives and the decision to purchase long-term care insurance pp. 296-310

Charles Courtemanche and Daifeng He

Hybrid allocation mechanisms for publicly provided goods pp. 311-325

Mary Evans, Christian Vossler and Nicholas Flores

Simultaneous versus sequential public good provision and the role of refunds -- An experimental study pp. 326-335

Jennifer C. Coats, Timothy Gronberg and Brit Grosskopf

Coming and going: Experiments on endogenous group sizes for excludable public goods pp. 336-351

T.K. Ahn, R. Isaac and Tim Salmon

Corrigendum for Table 4 of "Teaching to the rating: School accountability and the distribution of student achievement" [Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008) 1394-1415] pp. 352-353

Randall Reback