Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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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

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