Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Optimal tax treatment of the family: Married couples pp. 281-297: Michael J. Boskin and Eytan Sheshinski
The benefits and costs of public housing in New York City pp. 299-332: Edgar Olsen and David M. Barton
An explicit solution to an optimal tax problem pp. 333-346: Angus Deaton
The socialization of commodities pp. 347-356: Leonard Wilson and Michael Katz
Preference revelation and monopsony pp. 357-372: G. Fane and E. Sieper
Single-crossing conditions in comparisons of tax progressivity pp. 373-380: R. Hemming and Michael Keen
Voluntary provision of a pure public good as the game of `chicken' pp. 381-386: Irwin Lipnowski and Shlomo Maital
Welfare criteria for tax reforms: An extension pp. 387-389: Toshihiro Ihori

Tax policy and investment in major U.S. macroeconomic econometric models pp. 139-166: Bob Chirinko and Robert Eisner
A theory of interlinked rural transactions pp. 167-191: Pradeep K. Mitra
Unemployment insurance and redistributive taxation pp. 193-210: Robin Boadway and Andrew Oswald
From ability to pay to concepts of equal sacrifice pp. 211-229: Wolfram Richter
Adoption externalities as public goods pp. 231-247: Philip Dybvig and Chester S. Spatt
The scope of satisfactory mechanisms for the provision of public goods pp. 249-263: David Conn
Tax reform and temporary inefficiency pp. 265-270: Alasdair Smith
Workers' investment funds and the dynamic inefficiency of capitalism pp. 271-279: Matti Pohjola

Replacing the U.S. income tax with a progressive consumption tax: A sequenced general equilibrium approach pp. 3-23: Don Fullerton, John B. Shoven and John Whalley
The treatment of `quality' in the cost of living index pp. 25-53: Robert Pollak
Participation rules for Pareto-optimal clubs pp. 55-76: Arye Hillman and Peter Swan
Altruism, jealousy and the theory of optimal non-linear taxation pp. 77-87: Andrew Oswald
How much redistribution is possible through commodity taxes? pp. 89-101: Raaj Sah
Income distribution evaluation and the law of one price pp. 103-112: Al Slivinski
Second best pricing of publicly produced inputs: The case of downstream imperfect competition pp. 113-119: Barbara Spencer and James Brander
Adverse selection and statistical discrimination: An analysis of Canadian automobile insurance pp. 121-130: Bev Dahlby
Adverse selection and statistical discrimination: Further remarks pp. 131-137: John Riley

Housing prices and tenure choice with asymmetric taxes and progressivity pp. 271-290: Peter Englund and Mats Persson
Horizontal equity, income taxation and self-selection with an application to income tax credits pp. 291-309: Yves Balcer and Efraim Sadka
A test for allocative efficiency in the local public sector pp. 311-331: Jan Brueckner
Incentive generating state dependent penalty system: The case of income tax evasion pp. 333-352: Michael Landsberger and Isaac Meilijson
A decomposition of the Harberger expression for tax incidence pp. 353-366: Tatsuo Hatta and John Haltiwanger
Behavioral explanations of efficient public good allocations pp. 367-383: Ronald Harstad and Michael Marrese
Pigouvian taxation with administrative costs pp. 385-394: A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell
Lobbying, dup activities and welfare: A response to Tullock pp. 395-401: Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Macro implications of government redistributive tax-transfer policies pp. 139-169: Leigh Tesfatsion
Economic consequences of unfunded vested pension benefits pp. 171-186: Mark Gersovitz
Labor turnover in the U.S. federal bureaucracy pp. 187-202: George Borjas
Value-added tax and the theory of tax incidence pp. 203-223: Kul Bhatia
Tax policy and investment demand: A vintage approach pp. 225-241: James Malcomson
Taxes and capital intensity in a two-class disposable income growth model pp. 243-259: Laurence Seidman and Stephen B. Maurer
Neutrality of government bonds reconsidered pp. 261-270: Nissan Liviatan

On the possibility of an inverse relationship between tax rates and government revenues pp. 3-22: Don Fullerton
Accelerated depreciation and the efficacy of temporary fiscal policy: Implications for an inflationary economy pp. 23-47: Andrew Abel
Public employee pensions and the local labor budget pp. 49-71: Robert P. Inman
Industrial policy and the neutrality of the state pp. 73-96: Mike Williams
Intergenerational transfers as social insurance pp. 97-106: Alasdair Smith
A tax programming model pp. 107-120: Shlomo Yitzhaki
Layoffs and unemployment insurance pp. 121-129: Henry Saffer
Pareto optimal redistribution and private charity pp. 131-138: Peter Warr

Introduction pp. 285-289: Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Tax policy in the presence of emigration pp. 291-317: Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Koichi Hamada
Migration and optimal income taxes pp. 319-341: James Mirrlees
The income distribution frontier and taxation of migrants pp. 343-361: William Baumol
Optimal linear income taxation in the presence of emigration pp. 363-379: John Wilson
Optimal income taxation and migration: A world welfare point of view pp. 381-397: John Wilson

`Double dipping': the combined effects of social security and civil service pensions on employee retirement pp. 139-159: Gary Burtless and Jerry Hausman
The incidence of taxes: A dynamic macroeconomic analysis pp. 161-194: Stephen J Turnovsky
Price distortions, financing constraints and second-best investment rules in the transportation industries pp. 195-215: Ann F. Friedlaender and Subodh C. Mathur
Institutional inequality and tax incidence pp. 217-242: Patricia Apps
An informationally efficient equity criterion pp. 243-263: William Thomson
The role of ex ante and ex post decisions in the valuation of life pp. 265-276: Alistair Ulph
Another note on deadweight loss pp. 277-284: Michael Stutzer

Utilitarianism and horizontal equity: The case for random taxation pp. 1-33: Joseph Stiglitz
Test scores, educational opportunities, and individual choice pp. 35-63: Steven Venti and David Wise
Should educational expenses be deductible?: A comparison of tax bases in a model where education is a choice variable pp. 65-83: Sören Blomquist
States and persons--on the interpretation of some fundamental concepts in the theory of justice as fairness pp. 85-104: Anders Borglin
General equilibrium with price intervention policies: a computational approach pp. 105-119: Hasan Imam and John Whalley
Cost-benefit rules in general disequilibrium pp. 121-137: Per-Olov Johansson