Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 92, issue 12, 2008

New directions in fiscal federalism: Introduction pp. 2285-2287

Robin Boadway, Thiess Buettner and David Wildasin

Fiscal federalism and lobbying pp. 2288-2301

Massimo Bordignon, Luca Colombo and Umberto Galmarini

The effects of partisan alignment on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. Differences-in-differences estimates for Spain pp. 2302-2319

Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending pp. 2320-2335

Matz Dahlberg, Eva Mörk, Jorn Rattso and Hanna Ågren

Accountability and fiscal equalization pp. 2336-2349

Christos Kotsogiannis and Robert Schwager

Interregional redistribution and budget institutions under asymmetric information pp. 2350-2361

Bernd Huber and Marco Runkel

State investment tax incentives: A zero-sum game? pp. 2362-2384

Bob Chirinko and Daniel Wilson

A voluntary brain-drain tax pp. 2385-2391

John Wilson

Competing in taxes and investment under fiscal equalization pp. 2392-2402

Jean Hindriks, Susana Peralta and Shlomo Weber

Are regional asymmetries detrimental to tax coordination in a repeated game setting? pp. 2403-2411

Jun-ichi Itaya, Makoto Okamura and Chikara Yamaguchi

Volume 92, issue 10-11, 2008

Private v. public antitrust enforcement: A strategic analysis pp. 1863-1875

Randolph McAfee, Hugo Mialon and Sue Mialon

Crime and the labor market: A search model with optimal contracts pp. 1876-1891

Bryan Engelhardt, Guillaume Rocheteau and Peter Rupert

VAT, tariffs, and withholding: Border taxes and informality in developing countries pp. 1892-1906

Michael Keen

Tariffs, enforcement, and customs evasion: Evidence from India pp. 1907-1925

Prachi Mishra, Arvind Subramanian and Petia Topalova

Effects of enforcement on illegal markets: Evidence from migrant smuggling along the southwestern border pp. 1926-1941

Christina Gathmann

Religion, terrorism and public goods: Testing the club model pp. 1942-1967

Eli Berman and David D. Laitin

Status effects, public goods provision, and excess burden pp. 1968-1985

Ron Wendner and Lawrence H. Goulder

Hyperbolic discounting and uniform savings floors pp. 1986-2002

Benjamin Malin

Optimum income taxation and layoff taxes pp. 2003-2019

Pierre Cahuc and Andre Zylberberg

How to help unemployed find jobs quickly: Experimental evidence from a mandatory activation program pp. 2020-2035

Brian Krogh Graversen and Jan C. van Ours

Evaluating the impact of the French tax credit on the employment rate of women pp. 2036-2047

Elena Stancanelli

To search or not to search? The effects of UI benefit extension for the older unemployed pp. 2048-2070

Tomi Kyyrä and Virve Ollikainen

The employment effect of stricter rules for eligibility for DI: Evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden pp. 2071-2082

Anders Karlström, Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson

Do gender stereotypes reduce girls' or boys' human capital outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 2083-2105

Victor Lavy

School decentralization: Helping the good get better, but leaving the poor behind pp. 2106-2120

Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Who merits financial aid?: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship pp. 2121-2131

Joshua Goodman

Estimating permanent and transitory income elasticities of education spending from panel data pp. 2132-2145

Stephen Schmidt and Therese A. McCarty

The intergenerational transmission of generosity pp. 2146-2156

Mark Wilhelm, Eleanor Brown, Patrick M. Rooney and Richard Steinberg

Postponing retirement: the political effect of aging pp. 2157-2169

Vincenzo Galasso

Prosperity without conflict pp. 2170-2181

Francisco Gonzalez and Hugh M. Neary

Does grassroots democracy reduce income inequality in China? pp. 2182-2198

Yan Shen and Yang Yao

Tax law changes, income-shifting and measured wage inequality: Evidence from India pp. 2199-2224

Jagadeesh Sivadasan and Joel Slemrod

The informational role of supermajorities pp. 2225-2239

Emeric Henry

A simple scheme to improve the efficiency of referenda pp. 2240-2261

Alessandra Casella and Andrew Gelman

Redistribution and optimal mixed taxation in the presence of consumption externalities pp. 2262-2274

Luca Micheletto

A note on incomplete factor taxation pp. 2275-2281

Roc Armenter

Addendum: The aging population and the size of the welfare state: Is there a puzzle? [Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008) 625-671] pp. 2282-2283

Cameron Shelton

Volume 92, issue 8-9, 2008

Introduction pp. 1773-1776

Richard Layard

Should public policy respond to positional externalities? pp. 1777-1786

Robert Frank

How are preferences revealed? pp. 1787-1794

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy pp. 1795-1810

George Loewenstein and Peter A. Ubel

Social preferences and public economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives pp. 1811-1820

Samuel Bowles and Sung-Ha Hwang

Choices, situations, and happiness pp. 1821-1832

Botond Koszegi and Matthew Rabin

The reliability of subjective well-being measures pp. 1833-1845

Alan Krueger and David A. Schkade

The marginal utility of income pp. 1846-1857

Richard Layard, Guy Mayraz and Stephen Nickell

Behavioral economics pp. 1858-1862

Peter Diamond

Volume 92, issue 7, 2008

The informational effects of competition and collusion in legislative politics pp. 1541-1563

David Martimort and Aggey Semenov

Crime and punishment in the "American Dream" pp. 1564-1584

Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra

Performance competition in local media markets pp. 1585-1594

Federico Revelli

Reliability of individual valuations of public and private goods: Choice consistency, response time, and preference refinement pp. 1595-1606

Thomas C. Brown, David Kingsley, George L. Peterson, Nicholas Flores, Andrea Clarke and Andrej Birjulin

Competition and waiting times in hospital markets pp. 1607-1628

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

Subsidizing (and taxing) business procurement pp. 1629-1643

John Asker

What did Medicare do? The initial impact of Medicare on mortality and out of pocket medical spending pp. 1644-1668

Amy Finkelstein and Robin McKnight

Does work pay in France? Monetary incentives, hours constraints, and the guaranteed minimum income pp. 1669-1697

Marc Gurgand and David Margolis

The effects of joint taxation of married couples on labor supply and non-wage income pp. 1698-1719

Sara LaLumia

Labor supply, home production, and welfare comparisons pp. 1720-1737

Olivier Donni

Optimal grouping of commodities for indirect taxation pp. 1738-1750

Pascal Belan, Stephane Gauthier and Guy Laroque

Estate taxes, consumption externalities, and altruism pp. 1751-1764

Jaime Alonso-Carrera, Jordi Caballe and Xavier Raurich

The impact of changing skill levels on optimal nonlinear income taxes pp. 1765-1771

Craig Brett and John Weymark

Volume 92, issue 5-6, 2008

Diversity and redistribution pp. 925-943

Raquel Fernández and Gilat Levy

Understanding preferences for income redistribution pp. 944-961

Louise Keely and Chih Ming Tan

Market and public provision in the presence of human capital externalities pp. 962-985

Gianni De Fraja

When the Joneses' consumption hurts: Optimal public good provision and nonlinear income taxation pp. 986-997

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

Learning, public good provision, and the information trap pp. 998-1010

Aleksander Berentsen, Esther Bruegger and Simon Loertscher

An experimental test of warm glow giving pp. 1011-1021

Heidi Crumpler and Philip Grossman

Local inequality and project choice: Theory and evidence from Ecuador pp. 1022-1046

M. Caridad Araujo, Francisco Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw and Berk Özler

Anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica pp. 1047-1060

Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez, Fredrik Carlsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

Does happiness adapt? A longitudinal study of disability with implications for economists and judges pp. 1061-1077

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

Information, polarization and term length in democracy pp. 1078-1091

Christian Schultz

Political polarization and the electoral effects of media bias pp. 1092-1104

Dan Bernhardt, Stefan Krasa and Mattias K Polborn

Public good differentiation and the intensity of tax competition pp. 1105-1121

Benjamin Zissimos and Myrna Wooders

A bargaining model of tax competition pp. 1122-1141

Seungjin Han and John Leach

The effects of tax competition when politicians create rents to buy political support pp. 1142-1163

Wolfgang Eggert and Peter Birch Sørensen

International profit shifting within multinationals: A multi-country perspective pp. 1164-1182

Harry Huizinga and Luc Laeven

Must losing taxes on saving be harmful? pp. 1183-1192

Harry Huizinga and Søren Nielsen

Is there a "race-to-the-bottom" in the setting of welfare benefit levels? Evidence from a policy intervention pp. 1193-1209

Matz Dahlberg and Karin Edmark

Do countries compete over corporate tax rates? pp. 1210-1235

Michael Devereux, Ben Lockwood and Michela Redoano

Costs of alternative environmental policy instruments in the presence of industry compensation requirements pp. 1236-1253

Lans Bovenberg, Lawrence H. Goulder and Mark R. Jacobsen

Evaluating policy interventions with general equilibrium externalities pp. 1254-1274

Jared Carbone and V. Smith

Prices vs. quantities: The effects on technology choice pp. 1275-1287

Frank Krysiak

Drunk driving after the passage of smoking bans in bars pp. 1288-1305

Scott Adams and Chad Cotti

Cost-benefit analysis of the FDA: The case of the prescription drug user fee acts pp. 1306-1325

Tomas Philipson, Ernst R. Berndt, Adrian H.B. Gottschalk and Eric Sun

School finance reform: Assessing general equilibrium effects pp. 1326-1351

Dennis Epple and Maria Marta Ferreyra

Would higher salaries keep teachers in high-poverty schools? Evidence from a policy intervention in North Carolina pp. 1352-1370

Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth Glennie, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

Can increasing private school participation and monetary loss in a voucher program affect public school performance? Evidence from Milwaukee pp. 1371-1393

Rajashri Chakrabarti

Teaching to the rating: School accountability and the distribution of student achievement pp. 1394-1415

Randall Reback

Giving children a better start: Preschool attendance and school-age profiles pp. 1416-1440

Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Marco Manacorda

The literacy hour pp. 1441-1462

Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

Intergenerational risk-sharing and risk-taking of a pension fund pp. 1463-1485

Christian Gollier

The effects of fiscal policy on consumption in recessions and expansions pp. 1486-1508

Athanasios Tagkalakis

Effects of individual development accounts on asset purchases and saving behavior: Evidence from a controlled experiment pp. 1509-1530

Gregory Mills, William Gale, Rhiannon Patterson, Gary V. Engelhardt, Michael Eriksen and Emil Apostolov

Efficiency enhancing taxation in two-sided markets pp. 1531-1539

Hans Jarle Kind, Marko Koethenbuerger and Guttorm Schjelderup

Volume 92, issue 3-4, 2008

Separation of powers and the budget process pp. 407-425

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

Bureaucrats or politicians? Part II: Multiple policy tasks pp. 426-447

Alberto Alesina and Guido Tabellini

Perverse committee appointments may foster divide and rule pp. 448-455

Daniel Seidmann

Ideological uncertainty and lobbying competition pp. 456-481

David Martimort and Aggey Semenov

Interest groups and the electoral control of politicians pp. 482-500

James Snyder and Michael M. Ting

Policy platforms, campaign spending and voter participation pp. 501-513

Helios Herrera, David Levine and Cesar Martinelli

"One Man, One Dollar"? Campaign contribution limits, equal influence, and political communication pp. 514-531

Christoph Vanberg

Political competition within and between parties: An application to environmental policy pp. 532-547

Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder and Firouz Gahvari

Special interest groups and the allocation of public funds pp. 548-564

Monica Singhal

Context-dependent voting and political ambiguity pp. 565-581

Steven Callander and Catherine H. Wilson

The performance of pivotal-voter models in small-scale elections: Evidence from Texas liquor referenda pp. 582-596

Stephen Coate, Michael Conlin and Andrea Moro

Political careers or career politicians? pp. 597-608

Andrea Mattozzi and Antonio Merlo

Political complements in the welfare state: Health care and social security pp. 609-632

Carlos Bethencourt and Vincenzo Galasso

Increasing longevity and social security reforms--A legislative procedure approach pp. 633-646

Torben M. Andersen

The aging population and the size of the welfare state: Is there a puzzle? pp. 647-651

Cameron Shelton

A quantitative theory of social security without commitment pp. 652-671

Xavier Mateos-Planas

Capital-skill complementarity and the redistributive effects of Social Security Reform pp. 672-683

Alessandra Casarico and Carlo Devillanova

Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality? pp. 684-695

Jan C. van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

The perverse effects of partial employment protection reform: The case of French older workers pp. 696-721

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon and Béatrice Sédillot

Takeup, social multipliers and optimal social insurance pp. 722-737

Kory Kroft

Why progressive redistribution can hurt the poor pp. 738-747

Reto Foellmi and Manuel Oechslin

Distributional impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project pp. 748-765

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

Incorporating nonmarket time into benefit-cost analyses of social programs: An application to the self-sufficiency project pp. 766-794

David Greenberg and Philip Robins

Evaluation of four tax reforms in the United States: Labor supply and welfare effects for single mothers pp. 795-816

Nada Eissa, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven and Claus Kreiner

A quantitative evaluation of payroll tax subsidies for low-wage workers: An equilibrium search approach pp. 817-843

Arnaud Cheron, Jean-Olivier Hairault and Francois Langot

Pareto efficient income taxation with stochastic abilities pp. 844-868

Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate

$2.00 Gas! Studying the effects of a gas tax moratorium pp. 869-884

Joseph J. Doyle and Krislert Samphantharak

Optimal taxation in a growth model with public consumption and home production pp. 885-896

Jie Zhang, James Davies, Jinli Zeng and Stuart McDonald

Sustainability of public debt, public capital formation, and endogenous growth in an overlapping generations setting pp. 897-914

Akira Yakita

Income taxes, property values, and migration pp. 915-923

Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara

Volume 92, issue 1-2, 2008

The Hedonistic Paradox: Is homo economicus happier pp. 1-33

James Konow and Joseph Earley

Social ties and coordination on negative reciprocity: The role of affect pp. 34-53

Ernesto Reuben and Frans van Winden

Relative performance of two simple incentive mechanisms in a public goods experiment pp. 54-90

Juergen Bracht, Charles Figuieres and Marisa Ratto

Punishment and counter-punishment in public good games: Can we really govern ourselves pp. 91-112

Nikos Nikiforakis

Education, preferences for leisure and the optimal income tax schedule pp. 113-138

Carlos Eugênio da Costa and Tiago Severo

Government spending and intergenerational mobility pp. 139-158

Susan Mayer and Leonard M. Lopoo

Dynamic scoring: Alternative financing schemes pp. 159-182

Eric Leeper and Shu-Chun Yang

Inequality and media capture pp. 183-212

Maria Petrova

Delegation versus communication in the organization of government pp. 213-235

Rodney Ludema and Anders Olofsgård

Labor supply, deadweight loss and tax reform act of 1986: A nonparametric evaluation using panel data pp. 236-253

Anil Kumar

Is partial tax harmonization desirable pp. 254-267

Paola Conconi, Carlo Perroni and Raymond Riezman

Managerial contracting and corporate social responsibility pp. 268-288

David P. Baron

What's the monetary value of distributive justice pp. 289-308

Giacomo Corneo and Christina M. Fong

Social networks and private philanthropy pp. 309-328

Amornrat Apinunmahakul and Rose Anne Devlin

The old boy (and girl) network: Social network formation on university campuses pp. 329-347

Adalbert Mayer and Steven Puller

Inequality and trust in Sweden: Some inequalities are more harmful than others pp. 348-365

Magnus Gustavsson and Henrik Jordahl

The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society: Sweden, 1903-2004 pp. 366-387

Jesper Roine and Daniel Waldenström

Volunteering to be taxed: Business improvement districts and the extra-governmental provision of public safety pp. 388-406

Leah Brooks