Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 202, issue C, 2021

Journal-based replication of experiments: An application to “Being Chosen to Lead”

Allan Drazen, Anna Dreber, Erkut Ozbay and Erik Snowberg

The effect of reduced student loan borrowing on academic performance and default: Evidence from a loan counseling experiment

Andrew Barr, Kelli A. Bird and Benjamin L. Castleman

Building trust in the state with information: Evidence from urban Punjab

Adnan Khan, Sanval Nasim, Mahvish Shaukat and Andreas Stegmann

Voting with one’s neighbors: Evidence from migration within Mexico

Frederico Finan, Enrique Seira and Alberto Simpser

Fuel economy and the price of gasoline: Evidence from fueling-level micro data

Christopher R. Knittel and Shinsuke Tanaka

Bureaucrats under Populism

Greg Sasso and Massimo Morelli

One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program

Juan Felipe Ladino, Santiago Saavedra and Daniel Wiesner

Decentralizing corruption: Irrigation reform in Pakistan

Hanan Jacoby, Ghazala Mansuri and Freeha Fatima

The welfare effects of extending unemployment benefits: Evidence from re-employment and unemployment transfers

Po-Chun Huang and Tzu-Ting Yang

Volume 201, issue C, 2021

Surviving a mass shooting

Prashant Bharadwaj, Manudeep Bhuller, Katrine Løken and Mirjam Wentzel

Incumbents’ performance and political extremism

Marina Dodlova and Galina Zudenkova

Failure to launch: Measuring the impact of sales tax nexus standards on business activity

Richard Beem and Donald Bruce

Intergroup contact and nation building: Evidence from military service in Spain

Julio Caceres-Delpiano, Antoni-Italo De Moragas, Gabriel Facchini and Ignacio González

Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts

Elliott Ash and W. Bentley Macleod

Individual vs. group decision-making: Evidence from a natural experiment in arbitration proceedings

Naomi Gershoni

Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? Evidence from the appliance market

Sébastien Houde and Erica Myers

The economics of religious communities

Jean-Paul Carvalho and Michael Sacks

The political allocation of green pork and its implications for federal climate policy

Joel R. Landry

Optimal taxes on capital in the OLG model with uninsurable idiosyncratic income risk

Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig and Sergio Villalvazo

The long-term health and economic consequences of improved property rights

Huayu Xu