Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 91, issue 11-12, 2007

Tax evasion and social interactions pp. 2089-2112

Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix and Marie Claire Villeval

Finders keepers: Forfeiture laws, policing incentives, and local budgets pp. 2113-2136

Katherine Baicker and Mireille Jacobson

The effects of government transfers on monthly cycles in drug abuse, hospitalization and mortality pp. 2137-2157

Carlos Dobkin and Steven Puller

Racial segregation and the black-white test score gap pp. 2158-2184

David Card and Jesse Rothstein

Sorting and inequality in Canadian schools pp. 2185-2212

Jane Friesen and Brian Krauth

Do dropouts drop out too soon? Wealth, health and happiness from compulsory schooling pp. 2213-2229

Philip Oreopoulos

The size and composition of government expenditure pp. 2230-2260

Cameron Shelton

Decentralization and political institutions pp. 2261-2290

Ruben Enikolopov and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Dual track reforms: With and without losers pp. 2291-2306

Jiahua Che and Giovanni Facchini

Volume 91, issue 10, 2007

Editorial introduction pp. 1875-1877

Sören Blomquist and Roger Gordon

Public pension programmes and the retirement of married couples in Denmark pp. 1878-1901

Paul Bingley and Gauthier Lanot

Labor market shocks and retirement: Do government programs matter? pp. 1902-1919

Courtney Coile and Phillip Levine

Employer matching and 401(k) saving: Evidence from the health and retirement study pp. 1920-1943

Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar

The choice between an annuity and a lump sum: Results from Swiss pension funds pp. 1944-1966

Monika Bütler and Federica Teppa

Why is the market for long-term care insurance so small? pp. 1967-1991

Jeffrey Brown and Amy Finkelstein

Individual account investment options and portfolio choice: Behavioral lessons from 401(k) plans pp. 1992-2013

Jeffrey Brown, Nellie Liang and Scott Weisbenner

The tradeoff between mortgage prepayments and tax-deferred retirement savings pp. 2014-2040

Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang and Clemens Sialm

Voting over type and generosity of a pension system when some individuals are myopic pp. 2041-2061

Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Darío Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau

Defined contribution plans, defined benefit plans, and the accumulation of retirement wealth pp. 2062-2086

James Poterba, Joshua Rauh, Steven Venti and David Wise

Volume 91, issue 9, 2007

Special Issue: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Bergstrom, Blume, and Varian's "On the Private Provision of Public Goods": Guest editor's introduction: Twenty surprising years of BBV pp. 1643-1644

James Andreoni and Ravi Kanbur

Retailing public goods: The economics of corporate social responsibility pp. 1645-1663

Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak

Commitment and matching contributions to public goods pp. 1664-1683

Robin Boadway, Zhen Song and Jean-François Tremblay

Weak links, good shots and other public good games: Building on BBV pp. 1684-1707

Richard Cornes and Roger Hartley

Giving little by little: Dynamic voluntary contribution games pp. 1708-1730

John Duffy, Jack Ochs and Lise Vesterlund

Giving gifts to groups: How altruism depends on the number of recipients pp. 1731-1749

James Andreoni

A fundraising mechanism inspired by historical tontines: Theory and experimental evidence pp. 1750-1782

Andreas Lange, John List and Michael Price

New hope for the voluntary contributions mechanism: The effects of context pp. 1783-1799

Kent Messer, Homa Zarghamee, Harry Kaiser and William D. Schulze

Terrorist backlash, terrorism mitigation, and policy delegation pp. 1800-1815

Kevin Siqueira and Todd Sandler

Community and class antagonism pp. 1816-1842

Indraneel Dasgupta and Ravi Kanbur

Wealth inequality and collective action pp. 1843-1874

Pranab Bardhan, Maitreesh Ghatak and Alexander Karaivanov

Volume 91, issue 7-8, 2007

Economic growth and endogenous intergenerational altruism pp. 1231-1246

Hillel Rapoport and Jean-Pierre Vidal

Bequests, taxation and the distribution of wealth in a general equilibrium model pp. 1247-1271

Martin Bossmann, Christian Kleiber and Klaus Wälde

Social security and unsecured debt pp. 1273-1297

Erik Hurst and Paul Willen

Social security incentives, human capital investment and mobility of labor pp. 1299-1325

Panu Poutvaara

Aching to retire? The rise in the full retirement age and its impact on the social security disability rolls pp. 1327-1350

Mark Duggan, Perry Singleton and Jae Song

Electronic filing, tax preparers and participation in the Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 1351-1367

Wojciech Kopczuk and Cristian Pop-Eleches

Breaking the cycle? The effect of education on welfare receipt among children of welfare recipients pp. 1369-1398

Michael Coelli, David Green and William P. Warburton

How context matters: A survey based experiment on distributive justice pp. 1399-1422

Marco Faravelli

Happiness and loss aversion: Is utility concave or convex in relative income? pp. 1423-1448

Maarten Vendrik and Geert Woltjer

A contribution to the theory of optimal utilitarian income taxation pp. 1449-1477

Martin Hellwig

Taxes and entrepreneurial risk-taking: Theory and evidence for the U.S pp. 1479-1505

Julie Cullen and Roger Gordon

Taxation of uncertain business profits, private risk markets and optimal allocation of risk pp. 1507-1517

Kare P. Hagen and Jan Gaute Sannarnes

Taxation, insurance, and precautionary labor pp. 1519-1531

Nick Netzer and Florian Scheuer

Company tax reform with a water's edge pp. 1533-1554

Nadine Riedel and Marco Runkel

A case for taxing charitable donations pp. 1555-1564

Tomer Blumkin and Efraim Sadka

Optimum commodity taxation in pooling equilibria pp. 1565-1573

Eytan Sheshinski

Efficient black markets? pp. 1575-1590

Carl Davidson, Lawrence Martin and John Wilson

Are bid preferences benign? The effect of small business subsidies in highway procurement auctions pp. 1591-1624

Justin Marion

Socially optimal procurement with tight budgets and rationing pp. 1625-1642

Signe Anthon, Peter Bogetoft and Bo Thorsen

Volume 91, issue 5-6, 2007

Charter school quality and parental decision making with school choice pp. 823-848

Eric Hanushek, John Kain, Steven Rivkin and Gregory F. Branch

The impact of charter school attendance on student performance pp. 849-876

Kevin Booker, Scott Gilpatric, Timothy Gronberg and Dennis Jansen

Cohort crowding: How resources affect collegiate attainment pp. 877-899

John Bound and Sarah Turner

Individual teacher incentives and student performance pp. 901-914

David Figlio and Lawrence Kenny

The effect of randomized school admissions on voter participation pp. 915-937

Justine Hastings, Thomas J. Kane, Doug Staiger and Jeffrey M. Weinstein

Corruption and inefficiency: Theory and evidence from electric utilities pp. 939-962

Ernesto Dal Bó and Martín Rossi

Public sector pay and corruption: Measuring bribery from micro data pp. 963-991

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Klara Sabirianova Peter

Inefficient lobbying, populism and oligarchy pp. 993-1021

Filipe Campante and Francisco Ferreira

Leading by example with and without exclusion power in voluntary contribution experiments pp. 1023-1042

Werner Guth, Maria Levati, Matthias Sutter and Eline van der Heijden

Faith-based charity and crowd-out during the great depression pp. 1043-1069

Jonathan Gruber and Daniel Hungerman

Should governments stop subsidies to private goods? Evidence from rural Latin America pp. 1071-1094

Ramon Lopez and Gregmar Galinato

Can private giving promote economic segregation? pp. 1095-1118

Ignatius Horstmann, Kimberley Scharf and Al Slivinski

Health insurance market reform and employee compensation: The case of pure community rating in New York pp. 1119-1133

Scott Adams

Assortative marriage and the effects of government homecare subsidy programs on gender wage and participation inequality pp. 1135-1150

David Bjerk and Seungjin Han

Belief flipping in a dynamic model of statistical discrimination pp. 1151-1166

Roland Fryer

Anti-discrimination rules versus income taxation in the pursuit of horizontal equity pp. 1167-1176

Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth and Efraim Sadka

Sharing budgetary austerity under free mobility and asymmetric information: An optimal regulation approach to fiscal federalism pp. 1177-1196

Marie-Laure Breuillé and Robert Gary-Bobo

Decentralization and the productive efficiency of government: Evidence from Swiss cantons pp. 1197-1218

Iwan Barankay and Ben Lockwood

Who pays sales taxes? Evidence from French VAT reforms, 1987-1999 pp. 1219-1229

Clément Carbonnier

Volume 91, issue 3-4, 2007

Firm location decisions, regional grants and agglomeration externalities pp. 413-435

Michael Devereux, Rachel Griffith and Helen Simpson

Welfare-induced migration at state borders: New evidence from micro-data pp. 437-450

Terra McKinnish

Horizontal and vertical indirect tax competition: Theory and some evidence from the USA pp. 451-479

Michael Devereux, Ben Lockwood and Michela Redoano

Ex-post redistribution in a federation: Implications for corrective policy pp. 481-496

Marko Kothenburger

A theory of user-fee competition pp. 497-509

Clemens Fuest and Martin Kolmar

The provision and pricing of excludable public goods: Ramsey-Boiteux pricing versus bundling pp. 511-540

Martin Hellwig

Managing the quality of a resource with stock and flow controls pp. 541-569

Nathaniel Keohane, Benjamin Van Roy and Richard Zeckhauser

The general equilibrium incidence of environmental taxes pp. 571-591

Don Fullerton and Garth Heutel

Optimal taxation and cross-price effects on labor supply: Estimates of the optimal gas tax pp. 593-617

Sarah West and Roberton Williams

Pension design when fertility fluctuates: The role of education and capital mobility pp. 619-639

Jovan Zamac

Risk management of pensions from the perspective of loss aversion pp. 641-667

Johannes Binswanger

New evidence on earnings and benefit claims following changes in the retirement earnings test in 2000 pp. 669-700

Jae Song and Joyce Manchester

Risk-return preferences in the pension domain: Are people able to choose? pp. 701-722

Maarten van Rooij, Clemens Kool and Henriette Prast

Political contribution caps and lobby formation: Theory and evidence pp. 723-754

Allan Drazen, Nuno Limão and Thomas Stratmann

Fiscal restraints and voter welfare pp. 755-773

Timothy Besley and Michael Smart

Factor income taxation and growth under asymmetric information pp. 775-789

Wai-Hong Ho and Yong Wang

The undesirability of randomized income taxation under decreasing risk aversion pp. 791-816

Martin Hellwig

Unit versus ad valorem taxes: Monopoly in general equilibrium pp. 817-822

Charles Blackorby and Sushama Murty

Volume 91, issue 1-2, 2007

Schelling's spatial proximity model of segregation revisited pp. 1-24

Romans Pancs and Nicolaas Vriend

On the political economy of zoning pp. 25-49

Stephen Calabrese, Dennis Epple and Richard Romano

Fractionalization and the size of government pp. 51-76

Jo Lind

Blame-game politics in a coalition government pp. 77-96

Arnaud Dellis

The impact of social mobility and within-family learning on voter preferences: Evidence from a sample of twins pp. 97-116

Harry Krashinsky

Government accountability and fiscal discipline: A panel analysis using Swiss data pp. 117-140

Christoph Schaltegger and Benno Torgler

Demand and distance: Evidence on cross-border shopping pp. 141-157

Marcus Asplund, Richard Friberg and Fredrik Wilander

Inequality and informality pp. 159-179

Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein

COPS and crime pp. 181-201

William Evans and Emily Owens

Strong and weak ties in employment and crime pp. 203-233

Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou

Point-record driving licence and road safety: An economic approach pp. 235-258

Jean-Marc Bourgeon and Pierre Picard

Insuring consumption and happiness through religious organizations pp. 259-279

Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire and Erzo Luttmer

Can't buy me love? Subsidizing the care of related children pp. 281-304

Joseph J. Doyle

The integration of child tax credits and welfare: Evidence from the Canadian National Child Benefit program pp. 305-326

Kevin Milligan and Mark Stabile

Measurement error in models of welfare participation pp. 327-341

Monica Hernandez Alava and Stephen Pudney

Patience among children pp. 343-363

Eric Bettinger and Robert Slonim

Is the household demand for in-home services sensitive to tax reductions? The French case pp. 365-385

Anne Flipo, Denis Fougere and Lucile Olier

Erratum to "Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election" [J. Public Econ. 90 (4-5) (2006) 751-773] pp. 387-387

Brian Knight

Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election pp. 389-409

Brian Knight