Journal of Public Economics

Article	Citations
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores	133
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?	124
News credibility and the quest for clicks	90
Editorial Board	70
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India	67
Editorial Board	66
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high	65
Progressive consumption taxes	61
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?	60
The pond dilemma with heterogeneous relative concerns	51
State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data	51
Editorial Board	43
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors	42
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	42
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation	40
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence	40
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP	40
R&D tax credits and innovation	38
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities	38
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities	35
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments	33
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives	32
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure	32
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime	30
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-1911	29

The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program	29
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections	29
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana	29
Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities	28
Editorial Board	28
Industrial automation and local public goods	28
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence	28
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration	28
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona	26
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions	26
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance	26
Editorial Board	26
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes	25
Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings	24
Editorial Board	24
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition	24
Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation	24
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment	23
Tradable immigration quotas revisited	23
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior	23
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair	23
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design	22
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India	22
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy	22
Assessing the impact of grade retention: A cautionary tale of exclusion restriction violations	22
Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform	22
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements	22
The dynamics of cohort effect in politics	21
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events	21
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits	21
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system	21
Editorial Board	20
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news	20
Multilateral regime change	20
Crowding out crowd support? Substitution between formal and informal insurance	20
Editorial Board	20
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students	20
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption	19
The effect of war on redistribution preferences	19
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran	19
Landmines: The local effects of demining	18
Opportunity and inequality across generations	18
Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages	17
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆	17
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes	17
Noise pollution and violent crime☆	17
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea	17
Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh	16
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China	16
Recovering voice through out-of-district donations	16

Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon	16
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?	15
Editorial Board	15
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply	15
Subjective well-being and social desirability	15
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools	15
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea	15
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital	15
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil	15
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children	15
Economic activity and biodiversity in the United States	15
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940	15
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy	14
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus	14
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia	14
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness	14
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands	14
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure	14
Who benefits from pharmaceutical price controls? Evidence from India	14
The devil is in the details: Heterogeneous effects of the German minimum wage on working hours and minijobs	14
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest	14
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru	13
Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work	13
Editorial Board	13
Climate and migration in the United States	13
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers	13
Editorial Board	13
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves	13
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China	13
Effects of speed-schools in Niger	13
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon	13
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment	13
National parks and economic development	13
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit	12
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences	12
Auctions for risk-averse non-profits	12
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes	12
Correlation in state and local tax changes	12
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall	12
Diverting domestic turmoil	12
The political economy of coastal development	12
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming	12
Prices vs quantities with risk aversion	12
The effect of emergency financial assistance on healthcare use	12
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools	12
Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns	12
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution	12
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers	11
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings	11
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment	11
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information	11
Editorial Board	11
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts	11
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers	11
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities	11
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property	11
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria	11
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms	11
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment	11
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment	11
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes	11
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition	10
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court	10
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering	10
Social influence and carbon dioxide mitigation	10
Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia	10
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes	10
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard	10
Does information affect homophily?	10
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities	10
Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?	10
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics	10
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances	10
Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India	10
Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Self-signaling in voting	10
The “Privatization” of municipal debt	9
Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act	9

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