Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 217, issue C, 2023

How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP

Justin H. Leung and Hee Kwon Seo

Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation

Dominika Langenmayr and Li Liu

Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit

Matthew Freedman, Shantanu Khanna and David Neumark

Violence-induced migration and peer effects in academic performance

María Padilla-Romo and Cecilia Peluffo

When (and why) providers do not respond to changes in reimbursement rates

Marcus Dillender, Lu Jinks and Anthony T. Lo Sasso

Majority choice of taxation and redistribution in a federation

Stephen Calabrese, Dennis Epple and Richard Romano

Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences

Sarah Eichmeyer and Jonathan Zhang

Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands

Wouter Leenders, Arjan Lejour, Simon Rabate and Maarten van ’t Riet,

Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market

Danae Hernandez-Cortes and Kyle C. Meng

Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes

Guilherme Lambais and Henrik Sigstad

Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects

Marco Bertoni and Roberto Nisticò

Pretrial juvenile detention

E. Jason Baron, Brian Jacob and Joseph Ryan

Volume 216, issue C, 2022

State responses to federal matching grants: The case of medicaid

Pauline Leung

Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California

Erich Muehlegger and David Rapson

Reference points and redistributive preferences: Experimental evidence

Jimmy Charité, Raymond Fisman, Ilyana Kuziemko and Kewei Zhang

Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?

Jinyeong Son

Paternalism and pseudo-rationality: An illustration based on retirement savings

Itzik Fadlon and David Laibson

Identity and underrepresentation: Interactions between race and gender

Jean-Paul Carvalho and Bary Pradelski

Small-group instruction to improve student performance in mathematics in early grades: Results from a randomized field experiment

Hans Bonesrønning, Henning Finseraas, Inés Hardoy, Jon Marius Vaag Iversen, Ole Henning Nyhus, Vibeke Opheim, Kari Vea Salvanes, Astrid Marie Sandsør and Pål Schøne

Assessing knowledge or classroom behavior? Evidence of teachers’ grading bias

Bruno Ferman and Luiz Felipe Fontes

Volume 215, issue C, 2022

The minimum wage, informal pay, and tax enforcement

Anikó Bíró, Daniel Prinz and László Sándor

Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic

Analisa Packham

Temporary and permanent effects of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings accounts✩

Gopi Goda, Damon Jones and Shanthi Ramnath

How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment

Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, Emma Manifold, Konstantinos Matakos and Dimitrios Xefteris

Noise pollution and violent crime☆

Timo Hener

The emergence of private high schools in India: The impact of public-private competition on public school students

Surendrakumar Bagde, Dennis Epple and Lowell Taylor

Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools

Jesse Bruhn, Scott Imberman and Marcus Winters

Cutting special interests by the roots: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

Arthur Bragança and Ricardo Dahis