Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 221, issue C, 2023

Economic consequences of hospital closures

Diane Alexander and Michael R. Richards

The effect of increasing retirement age on households’ savings and consumption expenditure

Stefan Etgeton, Björn Fischer-Weckemann and Han Ye

The early origins of judicial stringency in bail decisions: Evidence from early childhood exposure to Hindu-Muslim riots in India

Nitin Kumar Bharti and Sutanuka Roy

De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India

Dahyeon Jeong, Ajay Shenoy and Laura V. Zimmermann

Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances

Klenio Barbosa and Fernando Ferreira

Doctor switching costs

Gordon Dahl and Silke Forbes

Corporate political spending and state tax policy: Evidence from Citizens United

Cailin Slattery, Alisa Tazhitdinova and Sarah Robinson

Prescription drug advertising and drug utilization: The role of Medicare Part D

Abby Alpert, Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood

Taxing Uber

David Agrawal and Weihua Zhao

Centralized admission systems and school segregation: Evidence from a national reform

Macarena Kutscher, Shanjukta Nath and Sergio Urzua

The consequences of the Swedish rent control system on labor income: Evidence from a randomized apartment lottery

Cecilia Enström Öst and Per Johansson

Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment

Dominika Langenmayr and Lennard Zyska

Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh and Wonjun Lyou

Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition

Otto H. Swank and Bauke Visser

Volume 220, issue C, 2023

Optimal income taxation in unionized labor markets

Albert Jan Hummel and Bas Jacobs

Partisan political beliefs and social learning

Andrea Robbett, Lily Colón and Peter Matthews

Climate adaptation policies and infant health: Evidence from a water policy in Brazil

Daniel Da Mata, Lucas Emanuel, Vitor Pereira and Breno Sampaio

Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?

Thiess Buettner, Boryana Madzharova and Orlando Zaddach

Children’s patience and school-track choices several years later: Linking experimental and field data

Silvia Angerer, Jana Bolvashenkova, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer and Matthias Sutter

“Model minorities” in the classroom? Positive evaluation bias towards Asian students and its consequences

Ying Shi and Maria Zhu

Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives

Zachary Bleemer

Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees

Mette Foged, Linea Hasager, Giovanni Peri, Jacob Arendt and Iben Bolvig

Can beneficiary information improve hospital accountability? Experimental evidence from a public health insurance scheme in India

Pascaline Dupas and Radhika Jain

The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy

Meera Mahadevan and Ajay Shenoy

Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-1911

Shuo Chen, Xinyu Fan, L. Colin Xu and Xun Yan

Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news

Giulia Caprini

Progressive consumption taxes

Carlos E. da Costa and Marcelo R. Santos

Volume 219, issue C, 2023

The unintended effects of minimum wage increases on crime

Zachary Fone, Joseph J. Sabia and Resul Cesur

Mirage on the horizon: Geoengineering and carbon taxation without commitment

Daron Acemoglu and Will Rafey

Managing “Last Moment Behavior”: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines

Thomas Dirkmaat, Kirsten I.M. Rohde, Evelien van de Veer, Bram van Dijk and Xiao Yu

Online shopping can redistribute local tax revenue from urban to rural America

David Agrawal and Iuliia Shybalkina

Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy

Gaurav Khanna and Priya Mukherjee

Emergency cash transfers for informal workers: Impact evidence from Mexico

Ana P. Cañedo, Raissa Fabregas and Prankur Gupta

Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities

Rainer Widmann

Hierarchy and Information

Daniel Rogger and Ravi Somani

Affirmative action and the choice of schools

Ursula Mello

(Re)scheduling pollution exposure: The case of surgery schedules

Jialin Huang, Jianwei Xing and Eric Yongchen Zou

Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?

Enrico Rubolino

Volume 218, issue C, 2023

Late-career unemployment shocks, pension outcomes and unemployment insurance

Samir Elsadek Mahmoudi

The $100 million nudge: Increasing tax compliance of firms using a natural field experiment

Justin E. Holz, John List, Alejandro Zentner, Marvin Cardoza and Joaquin E. Zentner

Overclaimed refunds, undeclared sales, and invoice mills: Nature and extent of noncompliance in a value-added tax

Mazhar Waseem

The political economy of public sector absence

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Khan and Arman Rezaee

The returns to an additional year of education for college graduates

Jie Gong and Jessica Pan

Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games

Alex Armand, Alexander Coutts, Pedro Vicente and Inês Vilela

The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris agreement target: The role of firm creation and technology adoption

Alan Finkelstein Shapiro and Gilbert E. Metcalf

Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities

Benoit Schmutz and Gregory Verdugo

Lost boys? Secondary education and crime

Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Hanna Virtanen

Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium

Eckhard Janeba and Karl Schulz

Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules

Alice Chen, Elizabeth Munnich, Stephen T. Parente and Michael R. Richards

Taxation, accountability, and cash transfers: Breaking the resource curse

Shantayanan Devarajan and Quy-Toan Do

Organizational design for making a difference

Canice Prendergast