Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 224, issue C, 2023

The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran

Safoura Moeeni and Atsuko Tanaka

Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment

Satadru Das, Lucie Gadenne, Tushar Nandi and Ross Warwick

Voter attention and electoral accountability

Saba Devdariani and Alexander V. Hirsch

A quantitative analysis of subsidy competition in the U.S

Alessandro Ferrari and Ralph Ossa

Incentives, globalization, and redistribution

Antoine Ferey, Andreas Haufler and Carlo Perroni

Tax curvature

Albert Jan Hummel

Money versus Kudos: The impact of incentivizing local politicians in India

Ghazala Mansuri, Nethra Palaniswamy, Vijayendra Rao and Slesh A. Shrestha

Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions

Brad Hershbein and Bryan A. Stuart

Minimum wages, retirement timing, and labor supply

Matt Hampton and Evan Totty

Helping struggling students and benefiting all: Peer effects in primary education

Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso and Michele Giannola

Estimating students’ valuation for college experiences

Esteban Aucejo, Jacob French and Basit Zafar

The consequences of job search monitoring for the long-term unemployed: Disability instead of employment?

Octave De Brouwer, Elisabeth Leduc and Ilan Tojerow

Trade-offs between access and quality in healthcare: Evidence from retail clinics in Mexico

Adrian Rubli

Does wealth reduce support for redistribution? Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery

Asbjørn G. Andersen, Simon Franklin, Tigabu Getahun, Andreas Kotsadam, Vincent Somville and Espen Villanger

Tax competition in the presence of profit shifting

Steeve Mongrain, David Oh and Tanguy van Ypersele

Economic spillovers and political payoffs in government competition for firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War

Donghyuk Kim

Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data

Ithai Z. Lurie and Corbin L. Miller

Estimating labor supply responses to Danish tax reforms

Hans Schytte Sigaard

Barriers to charitable giving

Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie and Clarence Wardell

On the existence of private unemployment insurance with advance information on future job losses

Piotr Denderski and Christian A. Stoltenberg

Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

Volume 223, issue C, 2023

A quantitative evaluation of universal basic income

Juan Carlos Conesa, Bo Li and Qian Li

Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools

Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak and Roman A. Zarate

The effects of changes in social security’s delayed retirement credit: Evidence from administrative data

Mark Duggan, Irena Dushi, Sookyo Jeong and Gina Li

Access to banking, savings and consumption smoothing in rural India

Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle

School quality and the return to schooling in Britain: New evidence from a large-scale compulsory schooling reform

Damon Clark

Diseconomies of scale and subsidies in urban public transportation

Nicolas Coulombel and Guillaume Monchambert

Disguised pollution: Industrial activities in the dark

Sumit Agarwal, Yajie Han, Yu Qin and Hongjia Zhu

Timing matters: Intra-day shifts of economic activity and ambient ozone concentrations

David Adler and Edson Severnini

Self-assessment: The role of the social environment

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Florian Zimmermann

‘Earned, not given’? The effect of lowering the full retirement age on retirement decisions

Mathias Dolls and Carla Krolage

Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment

Elena Derby, Kathleen Mackie and Jacob Mortenson

International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply

Michel Beine, Giovanni Peri and Morgan Raux

Volume 222, issue C, 2023

The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program

Mike Cassidy and Janet Currie

The long run effects of de jure discrimination in the credit market: How redlining increased crime

John Anders

Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits

Peng Zhang

Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution

Urs Fischbacher, David Grammling, Jan Hausfeld and Vojtěch Zíka

Smoking gun? Linking gun ownership to crime victimization

Stephen B. Billings

Does information affect homophily?

Yana Gallen and Melanie Wasserman

Cigarette taxes, smoking, and health in the long run

Andrew Friedson, Moyan Li, Katherine Meckel, Daniel I. Rees and Daniel W. Sacks

Window dressing in the public sector: Evidence from China’s compulsory education promotion program

Hanming Fang, Chang Liu and Li-An Zhou

Crowding in with impure altruism: Theory and evidence from volunteerism in national parks

Matthew J. Kotchen and Katherine R.H. Wagner

The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure

Daniel Rogger and Ravi Somani

Food subsidies in general equilibrium

Albert Jan Hummel and Vinzenz Ziesemer

The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers

Gopi Goda and Evan J. Soltas

The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information

Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment

Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer and Matthias Sutter

Suing the government under weak rule of law: Evidence from administrative litigation reform in China

Guangyu Cao, Chenran Liu and Li-An Zhou

The inequality impact of consumption taxes: An international comparison

Julien Blasco, Elvire Guillaud and Michaël Zemmour

A preference-based theory unifying monetary and non-monetary poverty measurement

Benoit Decerf

Supply-side health policy: The impact of scope-of-practice laws on mortality

Benjamin J. McMichael

Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon

Philip G. Hoxie, Daniel Shoag and Stan Veuger