Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 89, issue 11-12, 2005

A utilitarian approach to the provision and pricing of excludable public goods pp. 1981-2003

Martin Hellwig

Redistribution and education subsidies are Siamese twins pp. 2005-2035

Lans Bovenberg and Bas Jacobs

Integration of unemployment insurance with retirement insurance pp. 2037-2067

Joseph Stiglitz and Jungyoll Yun

Choosing between gifts and bequests: How taxes affect the timing of wealth transfers pp. 2069-2091

David Joulfaian

Tax bases, tax rates and the elasticity of reported income pp. 2093-2119

Wojciech Kopczuk

Not so voluntary retirement decisions? Evidence from a pension reform pp. 2121-2136

Tuulia Hakola and Roope Uusitalo

Do low-income housing subsidies increase the occupied housing stock? pp. 2137-2164

Todd Sinai and Joel Waldfogel

Rent control and unemployment duration pp. 2165-2181

Michael Svarer, Michael Rosholm and Jakob Munch

Hidden impact? Household saving in response to a poor-area development project pp. 2183-2204

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

Nonprofits with distributional objectives: price discrimination and corner solutions pp. 2205-2230

Richard Steinberg and Burton A. Weisbrod

Precautionary savings and the governance of nonprofit organizations pp. 2231-2243

Raymond Fisman and R. Glenn Hubbard

Are church and state substitutes? Evidence from the 1996 welfare reform pp. 2245-2267

Daniel Hungerman

State lotteries and consumer behavior pp. 2269-2299

Melissa Kearney

Anonymity in giving in a natural context--a field experiment in 30 churches pp. 2301-2323

Adriaan Soetevent

Ethnic diversity, social sanctions, and public goods in Kenya pp. 2325-2368

Edward Miguel and Mary Kay Gugerty

Tax liability side equivalence in gift-exchange labor markets pp. 2369-2382

Arno Riedl and Jean-Robert Tyran

Volume 89, issue 9-10, 2005

Corporate tax evasion with agency costs pp. 1593-1610

Keith J. Crocker and Joel Slemrod

Timing tax evasion pp. 1611-1637

Dirk Niepelt

Organized crime, corruption and punishment pp. 1639-1663

Maurice Kugler, Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou

On the demand for grandchildren: tied transfers and the demonstration effect pp. 1665-1697

Donald Cox and Oded Stark

Does the balance of power within a family matter? The case of the Retirement Equity Act pp. 1699-1717

Saku Aura

Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives: Federalism, Chinese style pp. 1719-1742

Hehui Jin, Yingyi Qian and Barry Weingast

Political turnover and economic performance: the incentive role of personnel control in China pp. 1743-1762

Hongbin Li and Li-An Zhou

Public input competition pp. 1763-1787

Sam Bucovetsky

Tax competition, tax exporting and higher-government choice of tax instruments for local governments pp. 1789-1821

Ralph M. Braid

Economic integration and tax policy with endogenous foreign firm ownership pp. 1823-1840

Clemens Fuest

Immigration quotas and skill upgrading pp. 1841-1863

Francesc Ortega

Adverse selection in health insurance markets? Evidence from state small-group health insurance reforms pp. 1865-1877

Kosali Simon

Moral hazard and sickness insurance pp. 1879-1890

Per Johansson and Mårten Palme

Insurance, self-protection, and the economics of terrorism pp. 1891-1905

Darius Lakdawalla and George Zanjani

Earthquake fatalities: the interaction of nature and political economy pp. 1907-1933

Nejat Anbarci, Monica Escaleras and Charles Register

Allocation of pollution abatement under learning by doing pp. 1935-1960

Yann Bramoullé and Lars Olson

The two-part instrument in a second-best world pp. 1961-1975

Don Fullerton and Ann Wolverton

Corrigendum to "Equivalent-expenditure functions and equivalent-dependent equivalence scales" pp. 1977-1979

David Donaldson and Krishna Pendakur

Volume 89, issue 8, 2005

Experimental approaches to public economics: guest editors' introduction pp. 1355-1359

James Andreoni and John List

An experimental comparison of collective choice procedures for excludable public goods pp. 1361-1398

Sean Gailmard and Thomas Palfrey

After you--endogenous sequencing in voluntary contribution games pp. 1399-1419

Jan Potters, Martin Sefton and Lise Vesterlund

Cooperation under the threat of expulsion in a public goods experiment pp. 1421-1435

Matthias Cinyabuguma, Talbot Page and Louis Putterman

Credible assignments can improve efficiency in laboratory public goods games pp. 1437-1455

Beth Seely, John van Huyck and Raymond Battalio

Cooperation among strangers with limited information about reputation pp. 1457-1468

Gary Bolton, Elena Katok and Axel Ockenfels

Principles of network development and evolution: an experimental study pp. 1469-1495

Steven Callander and Charles Plott

Nominal bargaining power, selection protocol, and discounting in legislative bargaining pp. 1497-1517

Guillaume Frechette, John Kagel and Massimo Morelli

Tax and subsidy incidence equivalence theories: experimental evidence from competitive markets pp. 1519-1542

Bradley Ruffle

An experimental test of the crowding out hypothesis pp. 1543-1560

Catherine Eckel, Philip Grossman and Rachel M. Johnston

Testing competing models of loss aversion: an adversarial collaboration pp. 1561-1580

Ian Bateman, Daniel Kahneman, Alistair Munro, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

VCM or PPM? A comparison of the performance of two voluntary public goods mechanisms pp. 1581-1592

Daniel Rondeau, Gregory Poe and William D. Schulze

Volume 89, issue 7, 2005

Editorial introduction for "The Political Integration and Disintegration" special issue pp. 1155-1156

Robin Boadway, Jacques Thisse and Shlomo Weber

Why countries are fiscally decentralizing pp. 1157-1189

Mohammad Arzaghi and J. Vernon Henderson

How to win a decision in a confederation pp. 1191-1210

Philippe Jehiel and Jacques Thisse

Decentralization and international tax competition pp. 1211-1229

John Wilson and Eckhard Janeba

Can decentralization be beneficial? pp. 1231-1249

Anna Rubinchik

Mixed markets and crime pp. 1251-1275

Robert Helsley and William Strange

Transfers in a polarized country: bridging the gap between efficiency and stability pp. 1277-1303

Ori Haimanko, Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber

Redistribution policy: A European model pp. 1305-1331

Alessandra Casella

War, peace, and the size of countries pp. 1333-1354

Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore

Volume 89, issue 5-6, 2005

The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools pp. 729-760

Julie Cullen, Brian A. Jacob and Steven Levitt

Accountability, incentives and behavior: the impact of high-stakes testing in the Chicago Public Schools pp. 761-796

Brian A. Jacob

The effect of overcrowded housing on children's performance at school pp. 797-819

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

The effects of spending on test pass rates: evidence from Michigan pp. 821-839

Leslie Papke

Educational opportunity and income inequality pp. 841-870

Igal Hendel, Joel Shapiro and Paul Willen

The melting pot and school choice pp. 871-896

Mark Gradstein and Moshe Justman

Preferences for redistribution in the land of opportunities pp. 897-931

Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara

Positive arithmetic of the welfare state pp. 933-955

J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz and Vincenzo Galasso

An alternative way to model merit good arguments pp. 957-966

Fred Schroyen

On the income dependence of equivalence scales pp. 967-996

Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder and Ulrich Schmidt

Income and well-being: an empirical analysis of the comparison income effect pp. 997-1019

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

A note on the 'natural rate of subjective inequality' hypothesis and the approximate relationship between the Gini coefficient and the Atkinson index pp. 1021-1025

James Harvey

Tax structure and economic growth pp. 1027-1043

Young Lee and Roger Gordon

Second-best optimal taxation of capital and labor in a developing economy pp. 1045-1074

Cecilia Garcia Penalosa and Stephen J Turnovsky

Ageing, fertility, and growth pp. 1075-1095

Peter Alders and Peter Broer

Consumption externalities, production externalities, and long-run macroeconomic efficiency pp. 1097-1129

Wen-Fang Liu and Stephen J Turnovsky

Erratum to "Competition, incentives, and public school productivity" pp. 1133-1154

Robert McMillan

Volume 89, issue 4, 2005

Cornell-ISPE Conference on Public Finance and Development pp. 567-570

Ravi Kanbur and Michael Keen

Fiscal deficits and growth in developing countries pp. 571-597

Christopher Adam and David Bevan

On selective indirect tax reform in developing countries pp. 599-623

M. Shahe Emran and Joseph Stiglitz

Taxation base in developing countries pp. 625-646

Emmanuelle Auriol and Michael Warlters

Tax/subsidy policies toward vector-borne infectious diseases pp. 647-674

Mark Gersovitz and Jeffrey Hammer

Decentralizing antipoverty program delivery in developing countries pp. 675-704

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

Decentralized targeting of an antipoverty program pp. 705-727

Emanuela Galasso and Martin Ravallion

Volume 89, issue 2-3, 2005

The design of transnational public good mechanisms for developing countries pp. 159-196

Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort

White elephants pp. 197-210

James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

Commons as insurance and the welfare impact of privatization pp. 211-231

Jean-Marie Baland and Patrick Francois

Strategic choice of financing systems in regulated and interconnected industries pp. 233-259

Anna Bassanini and Jerome Pouyet

Global warming and hyperbolic discounting pp. 261-282

Larry Karp

Individual option prices for climate change mitigation pp. 283-301

Trudy Cameron

Is there a daily discount rate? Evidence from the food stamp nutrition cycle pp. 303-325

Jesse Shapiro

Peer effects in medical school pp. 327-350

Peter Arcidiacono and Sean Nicholson

School vouchers in practice: competition will not hurt you pp. 351-380

Mikael Sandström and Fredrik Bergstrom

Food for thought: the effects of school accountability plans on school nutrition pp. 381-394

David Figlio and Joshua Winicki

Optimal incentives for labor force participation pp. 395-425

Philippe Choné and Guy Laroque

Financial incentives and retirement: evidence from federal civil service workers pp. 427-440

Beth Asch, Steven Haider and Julie Zissimopoulos

The social security early entitlement age in a structural model of retirement and wealth pp. 441-463

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

Life-cycle earnings, cohort size effects and social security: a quantitative exploration pp. 465-485

Juan Rojas

Wage-shifting effects of severance payments savings accounts in Colombia pp. 487-500

Adriana Kugler

Tiebout and redistribution in a model of residential and political choice pp. 501-528

Anke Kessler and Christoph Lülfesmann

The spillover effects of state spending pp. 529-544

Katherine Baicker

Revealed community equivalence scales pp. 545-566

Benjamin Olken

Volume 89, issue 1, 2005

Editorial Announcement pp. v-v

Robin Boadway and James Poterba

Editorial Introduction for Tax and Transfer Special Issue pp. 1-3

Bruce Meyer

When financial work incentives pay for themselves: evidence from a randomized social experiment for welfare recipients pp. 5-29

Charles Michalopoulos, Philip Robins and David Card

Children's welfare exposure and subsequent development pp. 31-56

Phillip Levine and David Zimmerman

The effect of Medicaid expansions for low-income children on Medicaid participation and private insurance coverage: evidence from the SIPP pp. 57-83

John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard

Medicaid managed care: effects on children's Medicaid coverage and utilization pp. 85-108

Janet Currie and John Fahr

Public insurance and child hospitalizations: access and efficiency effects pp. 109-129

Leemore Dafny and Jonathan Gruber

Housing mobility programs and economic self-sufficiency: Evidence from a randomized experiment pp. 131-156

Jens Ludwig, Greg Duncan and Joshua Pinkston