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Volume 88, issue 12, 2004

An economic theory of leadership turnover pp. 2361-2382

Maria Gallego and Carolyn Pitchik

Term limits and pork barrel politics pp. 2383-2422

Dan Bernhardt, Sangita Dubey and Eric Hughson

Paying politicians pp. 2423-2445

Matthias Messner and Mattias K Polborn

Does right or left matter? Cabinets, credibility and fiscal adjustments pp. 2447-2468

Jose Tavares

Aging population and education finance pp. 2469-2485

Mark Gradstein and Michael Kaganovich

The welfare implications of increasing disability insurance benefit generosity pp. 2487-2514

John Bound, Julie Cullen, Austin Nichols and Lucie Schmidt

Minimum standards, insurance regulation and adverse selection: evidence from the Medigap market pp. 2515-2547

Amy Finkelstein

Does contracting out increase the efficiency of government programs? Evidence from Medicaid HMOs pp. 2549-2572

Mark Duggan

Networks or neighborhoods? Correlations in the use of publicly-funded maternity care in California pp. 2573-2585

Anna Aizer and Janet Currie

Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration: The role of policy endogeneity pp. 2587-2616

Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

Do estate and gift taxes affect the timing of private transfers? pp. 2617-2634

B. Douglas Bernheim, Robert Lemke and John Karl Scholz

Pay or pray? The impact of charitable subsidies on religious attendance pp. 2635-2655

Jonathan Gruber

The optimal treatment of tax expenditures pp. 2657-2684

Emmanuel Saez

Endogenous human capital accumulation, comparative advantage and direct vs. indirect redistribution pp. 2685-2710

Hisahiro Naito

Efficient taxation, wage bargaining and policy coordination pp. 2711-2725

Thomas Aronsson and Tomas Sjogren

Foreign direct investment in a world of multiple taxes pp. 2727-2744

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

Preferential trade agreements and tax competition for foreign direct investment pp. 2745-2763

Horst Raff

The capital gain lock-in effect and perfect substitutes pp. 2765-2783

Peter Klein

An experimental evaluation of tax-reporting schedules: a case of evidence-based tax administration pp. 2785-2799

Michael Wenzel and Natalie Taylor

The role of warnings in regulation: keeping control with less punishment pp. 2801-2816

Karine Nyborg and Kjetil Telle

On the bad reputation of reputational concerns pp. 2817-2838

Guido Suurmond, Otto H. Swank and Bauke Visser

Volunteering a public service: an experimental investigation pp. 2839-2855

Marc Bilodeau, Jason Childs and Stuart Mestelman

Local governance and public goods provision in rural China pp. 2857-2871

Xiaobo Zhang, Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang and Jikun Huang

Volume 88, issue 11, 2004

Editorial pp. 2223-2225

Richard Blundell and Roger Gordon

The optimal taxation of unskilled labor with job search and social assistance pp. 2227-2258

Jan Boone and Lans Bovenberg

Social security, retirement age and optimal income taxation pp. 2259-2281

Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Pierre Pestieau

The impact of the corporate income tax: evidence from state organizational form data pp. 2283-2299

Austan Goolsbee

The effects of progressive income taxation on job turnover pp. 2301-2322

William Gentry and R. Glenn Hubbard

Work costs and nonconvex preferences in the estimation of labor supply models pp. 2323-2338

Bradley T. Heim and Bruce Meyer

A simulation-based welfare loss calculation for labor taxes with piecewise-linear budgets pp. 2339-2359

Don Fullerton and Li Gan

Volume 88, issue 9-10, 2004

Does education improve citizenship? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom pp. 1667-1695

Kevin Milligan, Enrico Moretti and Philip Oreopoulos

Are there civic returns to education? pp. 1697-1720

Thomas Dee

Disruption versus Tiebout improvement: the costs and benefits of switching schools pp. 1721-1746

Eric A. Hanushek, John Kain and Steven Rivkin

Using market valuation to assess public school spending pp. 1747-1769

Lisa Barrow and Cecilia Elena Rouse

Do federal grants boost school spending? Evidence from Title I pp. 1771-1792

Nora Gordon

In-state versus out-of-state students: the divergence of interest between public universities and state governments pp. 1793-1814

Jeffrey A. Groen and Michelle J. White

Do high grading standards affect student performance? pp. 1815-1834

David Figlio and Maurice E. Lucas

Home alone: supervision after school and child behavior pp. 1835-1848

Anna Aizer

The macroeconomics of early retirement pp. 1849-1869

J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz and Vincenzo Galasso

Competition, incentives, and public school productivity pp. 1871-1892

Robert McMillan

Asset allocation and asset location: household evidence from the survey of consumer finances pp. 1893-1915

Daniel Bergstresser and James Poterba

Gift taxes and lifetime transfers: time series evidence pp. 1917-1929

David Joulfaian

Taxes and the labor market participation of married couples: the earned income tax credit pp. 1931-1958

Nada Eissa and Hilary Williamson Hoynes

Tax incidence when individuals are time-inconsistent: the case of cigarette excise taxes pp. 1959-1987

Jonathan Gruber and Botond Koszegi

The impact of separate taxation on the intra-household allocation of assets: evidence from the UK pp. 1989-2007

Melvin Stephens and Jennifer Ward-Batts

Inequality and happiness: are Europeans and Americans different? pp. 2009-2042

Alberto Alesina, Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders pp. 2043-2066

Ilyana Kuziemko and Steven Levitt

Privatization, competition, and corruption: how characteristics of bribe takers and payers affect bribes to utilities pp. 2067-2097

George Clarke and Lixin Xu

When information dominates comparison: Learning from Russian subjective panel data pp. 2099-2123

Claudia Senik

A comparison between economic systems with an application to transition pp. 2125-2157

Gilles Duranton and Toni Haniotis

A theory of impact philanthropy pp. 2159-2180

Brian Duncan

Using nonprofit organization-level financial data to infer managers' fund-raising strategies pp. 2181-2192

Daniel Tinkelman

How responsive are private transfers to income? Evidence from a laissez-faire economy pp. 2193-2219

Donald Cox, Bruce E. Hansen and Emmanuel Jimenez

Erratum to "Editorial introduction" [J. Public Econ. 88 (2004) 895-897] pp. 2221-2221

Alan Auerbach

Volume 88, issue 7-8, 2004

Competition between private and public schools: testing stratification and pricing predictions pp. 1215-1245

Dennis Epple, David Figlio and Richard Romano

Does competition between hospitals improve the quality of care?: Hospital death rates and the NHS internal market pp. 1247-1272

Carol Propper, Simon Burgess and Katherine Green

How elastic is the firm's demand for health insurance? pp. 1273-1293

Jonathan Gruber and Michael Lettau

Opting out of social security pp. 1295-1306

Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser

Do changes in pension incentives affect retirement? A longitudinal study of subjective retirement expectations pp. 1307-1333

Sewin Chan and Ann Huff Stevens

The pay-as-you-go pension system as fertility insurance and an enforcement device pp. 1335-1357

Hans-Werner Sinn

Well-being over time in Britain and the USA pp. 1359-1386

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

The effects of welfare and tax reform: the material well-being of single mothers in the 1980s and 1990s pp. 1387-1420

Bruce Meyer and James X. Sullivan

Food insecurity and public assistance pp. 1421-1443

George Borjas

On the compassion of time-limited welfare programs pp. 1445-1470

Hanming Fang and Dan Silverman

Tightening a welfare system: the effects of benefit denial on future welfare receipt pp. 1471-1493

David Green and William P. Warburton

Welfare benefits and the duration of welfare spells: evidence from a natural experiment in Canada pp. 1495-1520

Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix and Simon Drolet

Locational choice of AFDC recipients within California: a conditional logit analysis pp. 1521-1542

Suzanne O'Keefe

The asset price incidence of capital gains taxes: evidence from the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and publicly-traded real estate firms pp. 1543-1565

Todd Sinai and Joseph Gyourko

The incidence of personal income taxation: evidence from the tax reform act of 1986 pp. 1567-1588

Jeffrey D. Kubik

Who wants political integration?: Evidence from the Swedish EU-membership referendum pp. 1589-1604

Jonas Vlachos

Public goods experiments without confidentiality: a glimpse into fund-raising pp. 1605-1623

James Andreoni and Ragan Petrie

The impact of social approval and framing on cooperation in public good situations pp. 1625-1644

Mari Rege and Kjetil Telle

Voting when money and morals conflict: an experimental test of expressive voting pp. 1645-1664

Jean-Robert Tyran

Corrigendum to "The politics of redistribute social insurance" [J. Public Economics 87 (2003) 2639-2660] pp. 1665-1665

Phillippe DeDonder and Jean Hindriks

Volume 88, issue 6, 2004

Capital tax competition: bane or boon pp. 1065-1091

John Wilson and David Wildasin

Are international deposits tax-driven pp. 1093-1118

Harry Huizinga and Gaëtan Nicodème

Asymmetric FDI and tax-treaty bargaining: theory and evidence pp. 1119-1148

Richard Chisik and Ronald Davies

Income shifting, investment, and tax competition: theory and evidence from provincial taxation in Canada pp. 1149-1168

Jack Mintz and Michael Smart

Are corporate tax rates, or countries, converging? pp. 1169-1186

Joel Slemrod

International tax coordination: regionalism versus globalism pp. 1187-1214

Peter Birch Sorensen

Volume 88, issue 5, 2004

US income taxation of new financial products pp. 899-923

Alvin Warren

The tax (dis)advantage of a firm issuing options on its own stock pp. 925-955

Robert L. McDonald

Generalized cash-flow taxation pp. 957-980

Alan Auerbach and David Bradford

Do we now collect any revenue from taxing capital income? pp. 981-1009

Roger Gordon, Laura Kalambokidis and Joel Slemrod

Start-ups, venture capitalists, and the capital gains tax pp. 1011-1042

Christian Keuschnigg and Søren Nielsen

On the timeliness of tax reform pp. 1043-1059

James Hines

Volume 88, issue 3-4, 2004

Optimal taxation, prudence and risk-sharing pp. 443-464

Hamish Low and Daniel Maldoom

Income taxation in a frictional labor market pp. 465-479

Joel Shapiro

Unemployment compensation finance and labor market rigidity pp. 481-501

Pierre Cahuc and Franck Malherbet

Direct or indirect tax instruments for redistribution: short-run versus long-run pp. 503-518

Emmanuel Saez

Taxes and the quality of capital pp. 519-543

Austan Goolsbee

Optimum taxation and the allocation of time pp. 545-557

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven

The optimal threshold for a value-added tax pp. 559-576

Michael Keen and Jack Mintz

Tacit collusion and international commodity taxation pp. 577-600

Andreas Haufler and Guttorm Schjelderup

A theory of markets, institutions, and endogenous preferences pp. 601-627

Ignacio Palacios-Huerta and Tano J. Santos

Efficient mechanisms for multiple public goods pp. 629-644

Suresh Mutuswami and Eyal Winter

Voluntary provision of a public good and individual morality pp. 645-666

Marc Bilodeau and Nicolas Gravel

Essential facility financing and market structure pp. 667-694

Bernard Caillaud and Jean Tirole

On the macroeconomic implications of maintenance in public capital pp. 695-712

Pantelis Kalaitzidakis and Sarantis Kalyvitis

Emission taxes and optimal refunding schemes pp. 713-725

Hans Gersbach and Till Requate

On atmosphere externality and corrective taxes pp. 727-734

Eytan Sheshinski

Distributional effects of alternative vehicle pollution control policies pp. 735-757

Sarah West

Bad politicians pp. 759-782

Francesco Caselli and Massimo Morelli

An empirical investigation of coalitional bargaining procedures pp. 783-797

Daniel Diermeier and Antonio Merlo

The political economy of policy centralization: direct versus representative democracy pp. 799-817

Michela Redoano and Kimberly A. Scharf

State corroding federalism pp. 819-843

Hongbin Cai and Daniel Treisman

Parochial interests and the centralized provision of local public goods: evidence from congressional voting on transportation projects pp. 845-866

Brian Knight

Does decentralization increase government responsiveness to local needs?: Evidence from Bolivia pp. 867-893

Jean-Paul Faguet

Volume 88, issue 1-2, 2004

Estate taxation with intended and accidental bequests pp. 1-21

Tomer Blumkin and Efraim Sadka

Asset location in tax-deferred and conventional savings accounts pp. 23-38

John B. Shoven and Clemens Sialm

Individual financial decisions in retirement saving plans: the role of participant-direction pp. 39-61

Leslie Papke

The impact of asset-tested college financial aid on household savings pp. 63-88

Mark Long

Do private transfers 'displace' the benefits of public transfers? Evidence from South Africa pp. 89-112

Robert T. Jensen

Does international coordination of pension policies boost capital accumulation? pp. 113-129

Luca Beltrametti and Luigi Bonatti

Ageing, migration and endogenous public pensions pp. 131-159

Theo Leers, Lex Meijdam and Harrie A. A. Verbon

Gerontocracy revisited: unilateral transfer to the young may benefit the middle-aged pp. 161-174

Panu Poutvaara

Equivalent-expenditure functions and expenditure-dependent equivalence scales pp. 175-208

David Donaldson and Krishna Pendakur

The health implications of social security failure: evidence from the Russian pension crisis pp. 209-236

Robert T. Jensen and Kaspar Richter

How has small group market reform affected employee health insurance coverage? pp. 237-254

Alan C. Monheit and Barbara Steinberg Schone

The subsidiarity bias in regulation pp. 255-283

Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jerome Pouyet

Optimal risk allocation for regulated monopolies and consumers pp. 285-303

Simon Cowan

Privatisation around the world: evidence from panel data pp. 305-332

Bernardo Bortolotti, Marcella Fantini and Domenico Siniscalco

Public rationing and private cost incentives pp. 333-352

Ching-to Ma

Local public works and intergovernmental transfers under asymmetric information pp. 353-375

Martin Besfamille

Good, bad or ugly? On the effects of fiscal rules with creative accounting pp. 377-394

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

Labor market institutions, taxation and the underground economy pp. 395-418

Marco Fugazza and Jean-François Jacques

Are individual investors tax savvy? Evidence from retail and discount brokerage accounts pp. 419-442

Brad Barber and Terrance Odean