Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 90, issue 12, 2006

Europe vs America: Institutional hysteresis in a simple normative model pp. 2161-2186

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

Retirement expectations, pension reforms, and their impact on private wealth accumulation pp. 2187-2212

Renata Bottazzi, Tullio Jappelli and Mario Padula

The choice to cash out pension rights at job change or retirement pp. 2213-2227

Michael Hurd and Constantijn Panis

How well do children insure parents against low retirement income? An analysis using survey data from urban China pp. 2229-2255

Fang Cai, John Giles and Xin Meng

Are stocks desirable in tax-deferred accounts? pp. 2257-2283

Lorenzo Garlappi and Jennifer Huang

Employee cost-sharing and the welfare effects of flexible spending accounts pp. 2285-2301

William Jack, Arik Levinson and Sjamsu Rahardja

Pensions with endogenous and stochastic fertility pp. 2303-2321

Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Pierre Pestieau

Life expectancy, human capital, social security and growth pp. 2323-2349

Cruz A. Echevarria and Amaia Iza

Consumption smoothing and the welfare consequences of social insurance in developing economies pp. 2351-2356

Raj Chetty and W. Looney

Volume 90, issue 10-11, 2006

Is commodity taxation unfair? pp. 1765-1787

Marc Fleurbaey

Redistribution and affirmative action pp. 1789-1823

David Austen-Smith and Michael Wallerstein

Optimal sin taxes pp. 1825-1849

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin

Optimal taxation with consumption time as a leisure or labor substitute pp. 1851-1878

Robin Boadway and Firouz Gahvari

A general formula for the optimal level of social insurance pp. 1879-1901

Raj Chetty

Measuring tax efficiency: A tax optimality index pp. 1903-1922

Pascalis Raimondos and Alan Woodland

S-based taxation under default risk pp. 1923-1937

Paolo Panteghini

The corporation as a tax shelter: Evidence from recent Israeli tax changes pp. 1939-1954

Dmitri Romanov

The marginal cost of public funds: Hours of work versus labor force participation pp. 1955-1973

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven and Claus Kreiner

The estate tax and the demise of the family business pp. 1975-1993

Michael J. Brunetti

Bequests as signals: Implications for fiscal policy pp. 1995-2008

Sergei Severinov

Ricardian equivalence under imperfect information pp. 2009-2026

Lorenzo Pozzi

Vertical versus horizontal tax externalities: An empirical test pp. 2027-2062

Marius Brülhart and Mario Jametti

On enhanced cooperation pp. 2063-2090

Massimo Bordignon and Sandro Brusco

An equilibrium voting model of federal standards with externalities pp. 2091-2106

Jacques Crémer and Thomas Palfrey

Fiscal federalism and economic growth pp. 2107-2120

Jan Brueckner

Which border taxes? Origin and destination regimes with fiscal competition in output and emission taxes pp. 2121-2142

Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari

Building and managing facilities for public services pp. 2143-2160

John Bennett and Elisabetta Iossa

Volume 90, issue 8-9, 2006

Political budget cycles: Do they differ across countries and why? pp. 1367-1389

Min Shi and Jakob Svensson

The elusive costs and the immaterial gains of fiscal constraints pp. 1391-1414

Fabio Canova and Evi Pappa

Dynamic scoring: A back-of-the-envelope guide pp. 1415-1433

N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl

What can be learned about peer effects using college roommates? Evidence from new survey data and students from disadvantaged backgrounds pp. 1435-1454

Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd Stinebrickner

It's not your peers, and it's not your friends: Some progress toward understanding the educational peer effect mechanism pp. 1455-1475

Gigi Foster

The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence from Chile's voucher program pp. 1477-1503

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Miguel Urquiola

The existence of non-elite private schools pp. 1505-1518

Francisco Martínez-Mora

The effect of state education finance reform on total local resources pp. 1519-1535

Katherine Baicker and Nora Gordon

Public health investments and the infant mortality gap: Evidence from federal sanitation interventions on U.S. Indian reservations pp. 1537-1560

Tara Watson

Health insurance and labor market outcomes: Joint decision-making within households pp. 1561-1577

Anne Royalty and Jean M. Abraham

Liquidity constraints and housing prices: Theory and evidence from the VA Mortgage Program pp. 1579-1600

Jacob Vigdor

The impact of mortgage interest-rate subsidies on household borrowing pp. 1601-1623

Nuno C. Martins and Ernesto Villanueva

Using experimental economics to measure the effects of a natural educational experiment on altruism pp. 1625-1648

Eric Bettinger and Robert Slonim

Altruism and charitable giving in a fully replicated economy pp. 1649-1667

Thomas Gaube

Tax avoidance and intra-family transfers pp. 1669-1680

Katarina Nordblom and Henry Ohlsson

The nonprofit sector and industry performance pp. 1681-1698

Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson

Public policy and the creation of active venture capital markets pp. 1699-1723

Marco Da Rin, Giovanna Nicodano and Alessandro Sembenelli

The progressivity of equalization payments in federations pp. 1725-1743

Nicolas Gravel and Michel Poitevin

Tiebout equilibria in local public good economies with spillovers pp. 1745-1763

Francis Bloch and Ünal Zenginobuz

Volume 90, issue 6-7, 2006

Local public good provision: Voting, peer effects, and mobility pp. 959-981

Stephen Calabrese, Dennis Epple, Thomas Romer and Holger Sieg

The political economy of urban transport-system choice pp. 983-1005

Jan Brueckner and Harris Selod

Tax incidence, majority voting and capital market integration pp. 1007-1025

Ben Lockwood and Miltiadis Makris

Racism and redistribution in the United States: A solution to the problem of American exceptionalism pp. 1027-1052

Woojin Lee and John Roemer

Corruption in America pp. 1053-1072

Edward L. Glaeser and Raven E. Saks

Primaries and the New Hampshire Effect pp. 1073-1114

Tilman Klumpp and Mattias K Polborn

The dynamics of municipal fiscal adjustment pp. 1115-1132

Thiess Buettner and David Wildasin

Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? The two faces of infrastructure investment pp. 1133-1153

Olivier Cadot, Lars-Hendrik Roller and Andreas Stephan

Universal service obligations in LDCs: The effect of uniform pricing on infrastructure access pp. 1155-1179

Antonio Estache, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Xinzhu Zhang

Discrete public goods under threshold uncertainty pp. 1181-1199

Michael McBride

Optimal indirect taxation with a restricted number of tax rates pp. 1201-1213

Pascal Belan and Stephane Gauthier

Optimal redistributive taxation when government's and agents' preferences differ pp. 1215-1233

Sören Blomquist and Luca Micheletto

On the undesirability of commodity taxation even when income taxation is not optimal pp. 1235-1250

Louis Kaplow

On the marginal cost of public funds and the optimal provision of public goods pp. 1251-1262

Firouz Gahvari

Growth, revenue, and welfare effects of tariff and tax reform: Win-win-win strategies pp. 1263-1280

Takumi Naito

Leniency policies and illegal transactions pp. 1281-1297

Paolo Buccirossi and Giancarlo Spagnolo

The adequacy of investment choices offered by 401(k) plans pp. 1299-1314

Edwin J. Elton, Martin J. Gruber and Christopher R. Blake

401(k) matching contributions in company stock: Costs and benefits for firms and workers pp. 1315-1346

Jeffrey Brown, Nellie Liang and Scott Weisbenner

Economic development and CO2 emissions: A nonparametric panel approach pp. 1347-1363

Theophile Azomahou, Francois Laisney and Phu Nguyen Van

Volume 90, issue 4-5, 2006

Dynamic enfranchisement pp. 551-572

William Jack and Roger Lagunoff

Committees with supermajority voting yield commitment with flexibility pp. 573-599

Ernesto Dal Bó

Markets as beneficial constraints on the government pp. 601-629

Alberto Bisin and Adriano Rampini

Informational lobbying and political contributions pp. 631-656

Morten Bennedsen and Sven Feldmann

Auditing and competitive bidding in the public sector pp. 657-678

Gervan Fearon and Lutz-Alexander Busch

Earmarked taxation and political competition pp. 679-701

Vincent Anesi

A positive model of overlapping income taxation in a federation of states pp. 703-723

Esteban Klor

Democrats, republicans, and taxes: Evidence that political parties matter pp. 725-750

W. Reed

Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election pp. 751-773

Brian Knight

Decentralisation of active labour market policy: The case of Swedish local employment service committees pp. 775-798

Martin Lundin and Per Skedinger

The incidence of UK housing benefit: Evidence from the 1990s reforms pp. 799-822

Stephen Gibbons and Alan Manning

The optimal use of fines and imprisonment when wealth is unobservable pp. 823-835

A. Mitchell Polinsky

Testing, crime and punishment pp. 837-851

David Figlio

Corruption and the costs of redistribution: Micro evidence from Indonesia pp. 853-870

Benjamin Olken

Private information, Coasian bargaining, and the second welfare theorem pp. 871-895

Dagobert Brito, Jonathan Hamilton, Michael Intriligator, Eytan Sheshinski and Steven M. Slutsky

Optimal tax treatment of private contributions for public goods with and without warm glow preferences pp. 897-919

Peter Diamond

The incidence of a tax on pure rent in a small open economy pp. 921-933

Alberto Petrucci

Income and wealth heterogeneity in the voluntary provision of linear public goods pp. 935-955

Edward Buckley and Rachel Croson

Bergstrom et al. 1986: A correction pp. 957-958

Rodney J. Andrews

Volume 90, issue 3, 2006

TAPES 5-2004 special issue: Editorial introduction pp. 405-406

Roger Gordon

State fiscal institutions and empty-nest migration: Are Tiebout voters hobbled? pp. 407-427

Martin Farnham and Purvi Sevak

Income segregation and local progressive taxation: Empirical evidence from Switzerland pp. 429-458

Kurt Schmidheiny

Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision pp. 459-475

Federico Revelli

The incentive effect of fiscal equalization transfers on tax policy pp. 477-497

Thiess Buettner

Can regional policy in a federation improve economic efficiency? pp. 499-511

Clemens Fuest and Bernd Huber

The demand for tax haven operations pp. 513-531

Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James Hines

Tax competition with heterogeneous firms pp. 533-549

John Burbidge, Katherine Cuff and John Leach

Volume 90, issue 1-2, 2006

Persistent media bias pp. 1-36

David P. Baron

Media capture in a democracy: The role of wealth concentration pp. 37-58

Giacomo Corneo

Credible communication in dynastic government pp. 59-86

Roger Lagunoff

Budget windows, sunsets, and fiscal control pp. 87-100

Alan Auerbach

The macroeconomic effects of fiscal rules in the US states pp. 101-117

Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov

The Congressional budget process, aggregate spending, and statutory budget rules pp. 119-141

Dhammika Dharmapala

Equality of opportunity and optimal cash and in-kind policies pp. 143-169

Leonardo Gasparini and Santiago Pinto

Education, redistributive taxation and confidence pp. 171-188

Kai Konrad and Amedeo Spadaro

Could do better: The effectiveness of incentives and competition in schools pp. 189-213

Gianni De Fraja and Pedro Landeras

Games of school choice under the Boston mechanism pp. 215-237

Haluk Ergin and Tayfun Sönmez

Do accountability and voucher threats improve low-performing schools? pp. 239-255

David Figlio and Cecilia Elena Rouse

The incidence of Medicare pp. 257-276

Mark McClellan and Jonathan Skinner

Does Medicare benefit the poor? pp. 277-292

Jay Bhattacharya and Darius Lakdawalla

Home care reimbursement, long-term care utilization, and health outcomes pp. 293-323

Robin McKnight

Agglomeration and welfare: The core-periphery model in the light of Bentham, Kaldor, and Rawls pp. 325-347

Sylvie Charlot, Carl Gaigne, Frederic Robert-Nicoud and Jacques Thisse

Public capital and imperfect competition pp. 349-378

Javier Coto-Martinez

The social costs of gun ownership pp. 379-391

Philip J Cook and Jens Ludwig

Union strategy and optimal direct taxation pp. 393-402

Sebastian Kessing and Kai Konrad