Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Volume 209, issue C, 2022

Social hierarchies and the allocation of development aid: Evidence from the 2015 earthquake in Nepal

Prakash Pathak and Matthias Schündeln

When scale and replication work: Learning from summer youth employment experiments

Sara B. Heller

Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?

Nicholas Broten, Michael Dworsky and David Powell

Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana

Francis Annan

Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation

Till Gross and Paul Klein

Labor market institutions and the incidence of payroll taxation

Jinyoung Kim, Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

The effects of the Great Migration on urban renewal

Ying Shi, Daniel Hartley, Bhashkar Mazumder and Aastha Rajan

Mean markets or kind commerce?

Martin Dufwenberg, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Michael Kirchler, Florian Lindner and Rene Schwaiger

The zero-rent society: Evidence from hydropower and petroleum windfalls in Norwegian local governments

Jørgen Andersen and Rune Jørgen Sørensen

Expectation management of policy leaders: Evidence from COVID-19

Peter Haan, Andreas Peichl, Annekatrin Schrenker, Georg Weizsäcker and Joachim Winter

Volume 208, issue C, 2022

The medicaid windfall: Medicaid expansions and the target efficiency of hospital safety-net subsidies

Sayeh Nikpay

Natural gas flaring, respiratory health, and distributional effects

Wesley Blundell and Anatolii Kokoza

Home bias in humanitarian aid: The role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief

Christian Bommer, Axel Dreher and Marcello Perez-Alvarez

Diverting domestic turmoil

Ashani Amarasinghe

Television and American consumerism

Woojin Kim

Financial (dis-)information: Evidence from a multi-country audit study

Xavier Gine and Rafael Keenan Mazer

Tradable immigration quotas revisited

Martin Hagen

Changes in household diet: Determinants and predictability

Stefan Hut and Emily Oster

Reexamining the evidence on gun ownership and homicide using proxy measures of ownership

Karim Chalak, Daniel Kim, Megan Miller and John Pepper

Sources of inertia in the individual health insurance market

Coleman Drake, Conor Ryan and Bryan Dowd

Opportunity and inequality across generations

Winfried Koeniger and Carlo Zanella

Credit constraints and human capital policies

Braz Camargo and Guilherme Stein

Incentive effects of the IRS’ passport certification and revocation process

Paul R. Organ, Alex Ruda, Joel Slemrod and Alex Turk

The effect of emergency financial assistance on healthcare use

Henry Downes, David Phillips and James Sullivan

Are deficits free?

Johannes Brumm, Xiangyu Feng, Laurence Kotlikoff and Felix Kubler

Stalin and the origins of mistrust

Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova and Vladimir Otrachshenko

Minorities’ strategic response to discrimination: Experimental evidence

Nikoloz Kudashvili and Philipp Lergetporer

Fiscal multipliers in advanced and developing countries: Evidence from military spending

Viacheslav Sheremirov and Sandra Spirovska

Cash on the table? Imperfect take-up of tax incentives and firm investment behavior

Wei Cui, Jeffrey Hicks and Jing Xing

VAT compliance, trade, and institutions

Peter Morrow, Michael Smart and Artur Swistak

Volume 207, issue C, 2022

Data-driven incentive alignment in capitation schemes

Mark Braverman and Sylvain Chassang

Guns and roses: Police complicity in organized prostitution

Guojun He and Wenwei Peng

A more comprehensive estimate of the value of water quality

Yusuke Kuwayama, Sheila Olmstead and Jiameng Zheng

Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act

William Belmont, Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal and Ian Van Hoek

The effects of physician retirement on patient outcomes: Anticipation and disruption

Xuan Zhang

The place-based effects of police stations on crime: Evidence from station closures

Sebastian Blesse and André Diegmann (geb. Nolte)

COVID-19, college academic performance, and the flexible grading policy: A longitudinal analysis

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

Gender and lawmaking in times of quotas

Quentin Lippmann

Volume 206, issue C, 2022

Data, discretion and institutional capacity: Evidence from cash transfers in Pakistan

Muhammad Haseeb and Kate Vyborny

Tax filing and take-up: Experimental evidence on tax preparation outreach and benefit claiming

Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Rizwan Javaid and Brenda Schafer

The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities

Cheng Cheng and Wei Long

The heterogeneous price of a vote: Evidence from multiparty systems, 1993–2017

Yasmine Bekkouche, Julia Cagé and Edgard Dewitte

Test scores and educational opportunities: Panel evidence from five low- and middle-income countries

Jishnu Das, Abhijeet Singh and Andres Yi Chang

When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times

Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti

Who benefits from tax incentives? The heterogeneous wage incidence of a tax credit

Clément Carbonnier, Clément Malgouyres, Loriane Py and Camille Urvoy

Broadband Internet and social capital

Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso Reggiani and Fabio Sabatini

Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences

Philip Keefer, Carlos Scartascini and Razvan Vlaicu

Performance pay, productivity, and strategic opt-out: Evidence from a community health center

Brian Cadena and Austin C. Smith

Guns and violence: The enduring impact of crack cocaine markets on young black males

William Evans, Craig Garthwaite and Timothy Moore

When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers

Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

Political elites and the “War on Truth’’

Thomas Bräuninger and Nikolay Marinov

School district revenue shocks, resource allocations, and student achievement: Evidence from the universe of U.S. wind energy installations

Eric Brunner, Ben Hoen and Joshua Hyman

Tax evasion and tax avoidance

Annette Alstadsæter, Niels Johannesen, Ségal Le Guern Herry and Gabriel Zucman

What determines where opportunity knocks? Political affiliation in the selection of Opportunity Zones

Mary Margaret Frank, Jeffrey Hoopes and Rebecca Lester

Earnings shocks and stabilization during COVID-19

Jeff Larrimore, Jacob Mortenson and David Splinter

Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings

Marc Chan, Todd Morris, Cain Polidano and Ha Vu