Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

Current editor(s): R. Boadway and J. Poterba

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Privatization benefits in Eastern Europe pp. 307-324: Stijn Claessens and Simeon Djankov
Decentralization and corruption: evidence across countries pp. 325-345: Raymond Fisman and Roberta Gatti
Are national pension systems efficient if labor is (im)perfectly mobile? pp. 347-374: Friedrich Breyer and Martin Kolmar
Do local officials know something we don't? Decentralization of targeted transfers in Albania pp. 375-404: Harold Alderman
Public infrastructure investments, productivity and welfare in fixed geographic areas pp. 405-428: Andrew Haughwout
Integration, agglomeration and the political economics of factor mobility pp. 429-456: Gianmarco Ottaviano and Jacques Thisse

The approximation of efficient public good mechanisms by simple voting schemes pp. 153-171: John Ledyard and Thomas Palfrey
The incidence of income tax on wages and labour supply pp. 173-194: Paul Bingley and Gauthier Lanot
Tax-exempt investors and the asset allocation puzzle pp. 195-215: Jack Mintz and Michael Smart
The desirability of commodity taxation under non-linear income taxation and heterogeneous tastes pp. 217-230: Emmanuel Saez
Collusion-proof yardstick competition pp. 231-254: Thomas Tangerås
Private costs and public benefits: unraveling the effects of altruism and noisy behavior pp. 255-276: Jacob Goeree, Charles Holt and Susan Laury
Free riding and the provision of candy bars pp. 277-291: Marco Haan and Peter Kooreman
Non-paternalistic altruism and welfare economics pp. 293-305: Nicholas Flores

Ability tracking, school competition, and the distribution of educational benefits pp. 1-48: Dennis Epple, Elizabeth Newlon and Richard Romano
School finance reform, the distribution of school spending, and the distribution of student test scores pp. 49-82: David Card and A. Payne
Individual preferences for political redistribution pp. 83-107: Giacomo Corneo and Hans Peter Gruner
Rent vouchers and the price of low-income housing pp. 109-152: Scott Susin

Legislative organization and government spending: cross-country evidence pp. 309-325: John Bradbury and W. Crain
Catching the agent on the wrong foot: ex post choice of monitoring pp. 327-347: Fahad Khalil and Jacques Lawarree
Inefficient equilibria in lobbying pp. 349-375: Georg Kirchsteiger and Andrea Prat
Can by-product lobbying firms compete? pp. 377-397: Paul Pecorino
Privatization, public investment, and capital income taxation pp. 399-414: Harry Huizinga and Søren Nielsen
Bidding for a group-specific public-good prize pp. 415-429: Kyung Baik, In-Gyu Kim and Sunghyun Na
The taking of land: market value compensation should be paid pp. 431-443: Ed Nosal
Ex ante free mobility, ex post immobility, and time consistency in a federal system pp. 445-460: Kiyoshi Mitsui and Motohiro Sato

Government decision-making and the incidence of federal mandates pp. 147-194: Katherine Baicker
Do taxes affect corporate debt policy? Evidence from U.S. corporate tax return data pp. 195-224: Roger Gordon and Young Lee
Social preferences, self-interest, and the demand for redistribution pp. 225-246: Christina Fong
Bank failures and fiscal austerity: policy prescriptions for a developing country pp. 247-270: Sheryl Ball and Andrew Feltenstein
The optimal income tax when poverty is a public 'bad' pp. 271-299: Waly Wane
Population ethics and the existence of value functions pp. 301-308: Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson

How effective is redistribution under the social security benefit formula? pp. 1-28: Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Private pensions, mortality risk, and the decision to annuitize pp. 29-62: Jeffrey Brown
Public health insurance and medical treatment: the equalizing impact of the Medicaid expansions pp. 63-89: Janet Currie and Jonathan Gruber
Taxes and quotas for a stock pollutant with multiplicative uncertainty pp. 91-114: Michael Hoel and Larry Karp
The impact of differential payroll tax subsidies on minimum wage employment pp. 115-146: Francis Kramarz and Thomas Philippon

Early childhood nutrition and academic achievement: a longitudinal analysis pp. 345-368: Paul Glewwe, Hanan Jacoby and Elizabeth King
Does favorable tax-treatment of housing reduce non-housing investment? pp. 369-391: Ben Broadbent and Michael Kremer
Information aggregation in debate: who should speak first? pp. 393-421: Marco Ottaviani and Peter Sørensen
Why charities announce donations: a positive perspective pp. 423-447: Richard Romano and Huseyin Yildirim
Education spending in an aging America pp. 449-472: Amy Rehder Harris, William Evans and Robert M. Schwab
The role of economic incentives in teenage nonmarital childbearing choices pp. 473-511: Barbara Wolfe, Kathryn Wilson and Robert Haveman

Tax incidence in differentiated product oligopoly pp. 173-192: Simon Anderson, André de Palma and Brent Kreider
Optimal income tax in the presence of status effects pp. 193-212: N. J. Ireland
Bequest taxes and capital gains realizations pp. 213-229: Gerald Auten and David Joulfaian
The efficiency of indirect taxes under imperfect competition pp. 231-251: Simon Anderson, André de Palma and Brent Kreider
Strategic tax competition; implications of national ownership pp. 253-277: Trond Olsen and Petter Osmundsen
Tax competition and tax co-ordination under destination and origin principles: a synthesis pp. 279-319: Ben Lockwood
Tax increment financing: a theoretical inquiry pp. 321-343: Jan Brueckner

Corruption and optimal law enforcement pp. 1-24: A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell
Searching for ghosts: who are the nonfilers and how much tax do they owe? pp. 25-50: Brian Erard and Chih-Chin Ho
Redistribution when avoidance behavior is heterogeneous pp. 51-71: Wojciech Kopczuk
Tax evasion and self-insurance pp. 73-81: Kangoh Lee
Plea bargaining with the IRS: extensions and further results pp. 83-98: K. L. Glen Ueng and C. C. Yang
Not-for-profit entrepreneurs pp. 99-115: Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer
Self-enforcing reciprocity norms and intergenerational transfers: theory and evidence pp. 117-151: Joel M. Guttman
A dynamic conjectural variations model in the private provision of public goods: a differential game approach pp. 153-172: Jun-ichi Itaya and Koji Shimomura