Journal of Public Economics

Article	Citations
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores	126
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation	119
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP	85
R&D tax credits and innovation	78
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors	65
The pond dilemma with heterogeneous relative concerns	65
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments	64
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?	59
News credibility and the quest for clicks	59
Editorial Board	58
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India	49
Editorial Board	47
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high	41
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities	40
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	40
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence	39
Progressive consumption taxes	39
State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data	39
Editorial Board	36
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?	35
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program	32
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana	32
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities	32
Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities	29
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime	29

Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives	28
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure	28
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-1911	28
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration	28
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India	27
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections	27
Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation	26
Industrial automation and local public goods	26
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona	25
Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform	25
Government spending multipliers in (un)certain times	25
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence	25
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment	24
Do prize-linked incentives promote positive financial behavior? Evidence from a debt reduction intervention	24
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design	24
Editorial Board	23
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Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements	22
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions	22
Tradable immigration quotas revisited	22
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance	22
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy	22
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair	22
Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings	22
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition	21
Editorial Board	21
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior	21
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes	21
Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh	20
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system	20
Landmines: The local effects of demining	20
The dynamics of cohort effect in politics	20
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits	20
Recovering voice through out-of-district donations	20
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events	20
Small business tax compliance under third-party reporting	19
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran	19
Multilateral regime change	18
Wealth inequality and the political economy of financial and labour regulations	18
Editorial Board	18
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Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news	17
Opportunity and inequality across generations	17
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon	17
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students	17
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆	17
Subjective well-being and social desirability	16
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption	16
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?	16
Noise pollution and violent crime☆	16

Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea	16
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China	16
The effect of war on redistribution preferences	16
Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages	15
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools	15
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes	15
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children	15
Climate and migration in the United States	14
Who benefits from pharmaceutical price controls? Evidence from India	14
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil	14
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness	14
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy	14
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea	14
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China	14
Editorial Board	14
Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work	14
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus	14
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands	14
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital	14
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers	14
Economic activity and biodiversity in the United States	13
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply	13
Effects of speed-schools in Niger	13
Editorial Board	13
National parks and economic development	13
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure	13
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon	13
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment	13
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest	13
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia	13
Correlation in state and local tax changes	13
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru	13
Learning from praise: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers	12
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution	12
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming	12
Diverting domestic turmoil	12
Editorial Board	12
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes	12
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools	12
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers	12
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves	12
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit	11
Auctions for risk-averse non-profits	11
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences	11
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment	11
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms	11
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings	11
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers	11
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall	11
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria	11
The effect of emergency financial assistance on healthcare use	11
Prices vs quantities with risk aversion	11
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment	11
Editorial Board	11
Long-term effects of grants and loans for vocational education	11
Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns	11
The political economy of coastal development	11
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts	11
Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India	11
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities	11
Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals	11
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities	10
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard	10
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information	10
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes	10
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property	10
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering	10
Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts	10
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment	10
Does information affect homophily?	10
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court	10
Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act	10
Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?	9
The “Privatization” of municipal debt	9
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand	9
Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia	9
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California	9
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances	9
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters	9
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition	9

Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes	9
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics	9
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats	9
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution	9
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation	9
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data	9
Editorial Board	9
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Self-signaling in voting	9
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program	9
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand	9
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India	9
Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids	9
Organized crime, violence and support for the state	9
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text	8
The place-based effects of police stations on crime: Evidence from station closures	8
Behavioral cross-influence of a shadow tax bracket: Evidence from bunching where income tax liabilities start	8
From syringes to dishes: Improving food sufficiency through vaccination	8
A quantitative evaluation of universal basic income	8
Managing “Last Moment Behavior”: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines	8
The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy	8
Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry	8
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion	8
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing	8
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data	8
Heads up: Does air pollution cause workplace accidents?	8
Editorial Board	8
Using payroll taxes as a redistribution tool	8
Taxing Uber	8
Environmental regulations and international trade: A quantitative economic analysis of world pollution emissions	8
Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools	8
The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective	8
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA	8
The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes: An analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program	8
The effects of physician retirement on patient outcomes: Anticipation and disruption	8
Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties	8
TRAP’d Teens: Impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education	8
The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination	8
Centralized School choice with unequal outside options	8
Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages	8
Corrigendum to “Consumer sentiment towards Asians in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic”. [J. Public Econom. 247 (2025) 105396]	8
The value of relationships in healthcare	8
Partisan political beliefs and social learning	8
Editorial Board	8
Incentives, globalization, and redistribution	7
Optional (non-)filing and effective taxation	7
Editorial Board	7
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Unemployment and tax design	7
Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic	7
‘Earned, not given’? The effect of lowering the full retirement age on retirement decisions	7
How did federal aid to states and localities affect testing and vaccine delivery?	7
Support for renewable energy: The case of wind power	7
We’ve got you covered! The effect of public health insurance on rural entrepreneurship in China	7
Facilitating police reform: Body cameras, police-involved homicides, and law enforcement outcomes	7
Counting on my vote not counting: Expressive voting in committees	7
A quantitative analysis of subsidy competition in the U.S.	7
Pension incentives and labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK	7
Editorial Board	7
Uniform brand-variant pricing and heterogeneous firm responses to excise taxes: Evidence from six U.S. cities	7
Football, alcohol, and domestic abuse	7
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance	7
One hundred years of U.S. state taxation	7
Are deficits free?	7
Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour	7
Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment	7
Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium	7
Tax evasion and tax avoidance	7
Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution	7
A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s	7
Read my lips? Taxes and elections	7
Spot price biases in non-linear health insurance contracts	6
OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality	6
Majority choice of taxation and redistribution in a federation	6
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation	6
State responses to federal matching grants: The case of medicaid	6
Parents’ effective time endowment and divorce: Evidence from extended school days	6
Vote and trade: An efficient mechanism for common-pool resource management with stock externalities	6
Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules	6
Eliciting preferences for income redistribution: A new survey item	6
An older college professor like me	6
Financial market exposure increases generalized trust	6
The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection: Evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia	6
Natural gas flaring, respiratory health, and distributional effects	6
Where and why do politicians send pork? Evidence from central government transfers to French municipalities	6
Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits	6
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects	6
The impossible trinity: Competitive markets, free entry, and efficiency	6
Diminishing Target-based GDP Manipulation: Evidence from China	6
How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment	6
Corrigendum to “Climate and migration in the United States”. [249 (2025) 105446]	6
The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertility	6
Editorial Board	6
The air quality and well-being effects of low emission zones	6
Crowd-out in school-based health interventions: Evidence from India’s midday meals program	5