Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 205, issue C, 2022

Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats

Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland and Christopher Roth

Counting on my vote not counting: Expressive voting in committees

Boris Ginzburg, Jose-Alberto Guerra and Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu

Incumbent regulation and adverse selection: You can keep your health plan, but at what cost?

Sebastian Fleitas, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso

The labor market effects of Mexican repatriations: Longitudinal evidence from the 1930s

Jongkwan Lee, Giovanni Peri and Vasil Yasenov

Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing

Akio Yamazaki

Estimating structural demand and supply models using tax rates as instruments

Adam Dearing

Multilateral regime change

Jon Eguia

Workplace disruptions, judge caseloads, and judge decisions: Evidence from SSA judicial corps retirements

Clayson Shumway and Riley Wilson

Volume 204, issue C, 2021

The effect of changes in alcohol tax differentials on alcohol consumption

Markus Gehrsitz, Henry Saffer and Michael Grossman

Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry

Dominika Langenmayr and Martin Simmler

Carbon taxes and footprint leakage: Spoilsport effects

Carol McAusland

Institutional flexibility, political alternation, and middle-of-the-road policies

Ascension Andina-Diaz, Francesco Feri and Miguel Meléndez-Jiménez

Backlash in policy attitudes after the election of an extreme political party

Magnus Carlsson, Gordon Dahl and Dan-Olof Rooth

Do prize-linked incentives promote positive financial behavior? Evidence from a debt reduction intervention

Jeremy Burke

Thinking outside the box: The cross-border effect of tax cuts on R&D

Thomas Schwab and Maximilian Todtenhaupt

The effects of introducing withholding and third-party reporting on tax collections: Evidence from the U.S. state personal income tax

Sutirtha Bagchi and Libor Dusek

Unmasking partisanship: Polarization undermines public response to collective risk

Maria Milosh, Marcus Painter, Konstantin Sonin, David Van Dijcke and Austin L. Wright

Long-term effects of grants and loans for vocational education

Josefa Aguirre

Learning from praise: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers

Maria Cotofan

Too much trade: The hidden problem of adverse selection

David de Meza, Francesco Reito and Diane Reyniers

Crowd-out in school-based health interventions: Evidence from India’s midday meals program

James Berry, Saurabh Mehta, Priya Mukherjee, Hannah Ruebeck and Gauri Shastry

Wealth inequality and the political economy of financial and labour regulations

Ronald Fischer and Diego Huerta

Politics and the distribution of federal funds: Evidence from federal legislation in response to COVID-19

Jeffrey Clemens and Stan Veuger

Volume 203, issue C, 2021

Certain effects of random taxes

James Hines and Michael Keen

Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts

Silvana Krasteva and Piruz Saboury

Spot price biases in non-linear health insurance contracts

Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper, Niels Skipper and Anne Illemann Christensen

Limits to third-party reporting: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Norway

Marie Bjørneby, Annette Alstadsæter and Kjetil Telle

Government spending multipliers in (un)certain times

Jan Philipp Fritsche, Mathias Klein and Malte Rieth

Small business tax compliance under third-party reporting

Bibek Adhikari, James Alm and Timothy F. Harris

More birds than stones – A framework for second-best energy and climate policy adjustments

Carolyn Fischer, Michael Hübler and Oliver Schenker

Pension incentives and labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK

Matthias Giesecke and Philipp Jäger

Tax enforcement using a hybrid between self- and third-party reporting

Sarah Clifford and Panos Mavrokonstantis

Environmental regulations and international trade: A quantitative economic analysis of world pollution emissions

Yuwan Duan, Ting Ji, Yi Lu and Siying Wang