Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 200, issue C, 2021

Trigger-happy or precisionist? On demand for monitoring in peer-based public goods provision

Andreas Nicklisch, Louis Putterman and Christian Thöni

Medicaid and provider supply

Jason Huh

Long-run pollution exposure and mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program

Alan I. Barreca, Matthew Neidell and Nicholas Sanders

Optimal taxation with multiple dimensions of heterogeneity

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

A social norm nudge to save more: A field experiment at a retail bank

Robert Dur, Dimitry Fleming, Marten van Garderen and Max van Lent

Efficient policy interventions in an epidemic

Alberto Bisin and Piero Gottardi

Attribution bias in major decisions: Evidence from the United States Military Academy

Kareem Haggag, Richard W. Patterson, Nolan Pope and Aaron Feudo

Ethnic geography: Measurement and evidence

Roland Hodler, Michele Valsecchi and Alberto Vesperoni

Whether, when and how to extend unemployment benefits: Theory and application to COVID-19

Kurt Mitman and Stanislav Rabinovich

More opportunity, more cooperation? The behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth

Christina Felfe, Martin Kocher, Helmut Rainer, Judith Saurer and Thomas Siedler

First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections

Dean Dulay and Laurence Anthony Go

Contagion at work: Occupations, industries and human contact

Anna Houštecká, Dongya Koh and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis

Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort

Gary W. Cox, Jon Fiva, Daniel M. Smith and Rune J. Sørensen

A note on optimal taxation, status consumption, and unemployment

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

Hysteresis from employer subsidies

Emmanuel Saez, Benjamin Schoefer and David Seim

Sharing the pie: An analysis of undernutrition and individual consumption in Bangladesh

Caitlin Brown, Rossella Calvi and Jacob Penglase

The incidence of extreme economic stress: Evidence from utility disconnections

Steve Cicala

The impact of abortion on crime and crime-related behavior

Randi Hjalmarsson, Andreea Mitrut and Cristian Pop-Eleches

When carbon emission trading meets a regulated industry: Evidence from the electricity sector of China

Jing Cao, Mun Ho, Rong Ma and Fei Teng

The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation

Ioana Marinescu, Daphné Skandalis and Daniel Zhao

Can payroll tax cuts help firms during recessions?

Youssef Benzarti and Jarkko Harju

Volume 199, issue C, 2021

Large learning gains in pockets of extreme poverty: Experimental evidence from Guinea Bissau

Ila Fazzio, Alex Eble, Robin L. Lumsdaine, Peter Boone, Baboucarr Bouy, Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh, Chitra Jayanty, Simon Johnson and Ana Filipa Silva

The effect of course shutouts on community college students: Evidence from waitlist cutoffs

Silvia Robles, Max Gross and Robert Fairlie

The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Alexander Strand

Who pays for and who benefits from minimum wage increases? Evidence from Israeli tax data on business owners and workers

Lev Drucker, Katya Mazirov and David Neumark

Quid pro quo? Government-firm relationships in China

Yu-Hsiang Lei

Can judiciaries constrain executive power? Evidence from judicial reforms

Matthieu Chemin

The informational value of environmental taxes

Stefan Ambec and Jessica Coria

The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences

Jing Liu, Monica Lee and Seth Gershenson

Volume 198, issue C, 2021

Home prices, fertility, and early-life health outcomes

N. Meltem Daysal, Michael Lovenheim, Nikolaj Siersbæk and David Wasser

Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubin

Decentralization of wage determination: Evidence from a national teacher reform

Alexander Willén

Time inconsistent charitable giving

James Andreoni and Marta Serra-Garcia

Women’s representation in politics: The effect of electoral systems

Martin Gonzalez-Eiras and Carlos Sanz

Sharing the burden of subsidization: Evidence on pass-through from a subsidy revision in Medicare Part D

Colleen Carey

The dynamics of linking permit markets

Katinka Holtsmark and Kristoffer Midttømme

Optimal intergenerational transfers: Public education and pensions

Monisankar Bishnu, Shresth Garg, Tishara Garg and Tridip Ray

Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Giacomo Corneo and Guido Neidhöfer

Supply-side optimal capital taxation with endogenous wage inequality

Xiaoyong Cui, Liutang Gong and Wenjian Li

Public good provision and property tax compliance: Evidence from a natural experiment

Paul Carrillo, Edgar Castro and Carlos Scartascini

Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information

Patrick Schmitz

Knowledge spillovers, peer effects, and telecommuting: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS-CoV-2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany

Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Lipfert and Nico Pestel