Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Public Economics is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
News credibility and the quest for clicks151
Editorial Board102
Progressive consumption taxes96
Editorial Board68
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?66
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores62
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors59
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation56
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities53
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition50
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence48
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession47
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high44
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities43
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India43
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP36
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic36
R&D tax credits and innovation33
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments32
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?31
A social norm nudge to save more: A field experiment at a retail bank31
Projecting unemployment durations: A factor-flows simulation approach with application to the COVID-19 recession31
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime29
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-191129
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana28
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort28
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives27
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure26
The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation24
Efficient policy interventions in an epidemic24
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections24
One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program24
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration23
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program23
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment23
Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation23
Editorial Board22
Can judiciaries constrain executive power? Evidence from judicial reforms22
Editorial Board22
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements22
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair22
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design21
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes21
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance21
Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings20
Do prize-linked incentives promote positive financial behavior? Evidence from a debt reduction intervention20
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions19
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior19
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition19
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy19
Tradable immigration quotas revisited19
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence19
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona19
Wealth inequality and the political economy of financial and labour regulations18
Opportunity and inequality across generations18
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news18
Government spending multipliers in (un)certain times18
Editorial Board18
Editorial Board18
Editorial Board18
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran17
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon17
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes17
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events17
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?17
The effect of war on redistribution preferences16
Motivating teams: Private feedback and public recognition at work16
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits16
Sharing the burden of subsidization: Evidence on pass-through from a subsidy revision in Medicare Part D16
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system16
Surviving a mass shooting15
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students15
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea15
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools15
Small business tax compliance under third-party reporting15
Multilateral regime change15
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China15
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆14
Noise pollution and violent crime☆14
Editorial Board14
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children14
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption14
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea14
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness14
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest14
Decentralization of wage determination: Evidence from a national teacher reform14
Subjective well-being and social desirability14
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital14
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia13
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil13
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus13
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply13
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure13
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy13
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru13
National parks and economic development13
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands13
Can payroll tax cuts help firms during recessions?13
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China13
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers12
Effects of speed-schools in Niger12
The effect of emergency financial assistance on healthcare use12
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon12
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts12
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment12
Contagion at work: Occupations, industries and human contact12
Correlation in state and local tax changes12
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall11
Learning from praise: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers11
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes11
Long-term effects of grants and loans for vocational education11
Editorial Board11
The political allocation of green pork and its implications for federal climate policy11
Editorial Board11
Time inconsistent charitable giving10
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers10
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria10
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property10
Diverting domestic turmoil10
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit10
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences10
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution10
Ethnic geography: Measurement and evidence10
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment10
The political economy of coastal development10
Sharing the pie: An analysis of undernutrition and individual consumption in Bangladesh10
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court10
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools10
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers9
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings9
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering9
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information9
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand9
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms9
Editorial Board9
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes9
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities9
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment9
Bureaucrats under Populism9
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard9
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment9
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities9
Does information affect homophily?9
Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act9
Organized crime, violence and support for the state8
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion8
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters8
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California8
The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective8
Quid pro quo? Government-firm relationships in China8
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances8
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition8
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution8
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program8
Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids8
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA8
The effect of the US safety net on material hardship over two decades8
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes8
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics8
Preference responsibility versus poverty reduction in the taxation of labor incomes8
Editorial Board8
Self-signaling in voting8
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand8
Partisan political beliefs and social learning8
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India8
The “Privatization” of municipal debt8
Editorial Board8
The informational value of environmental taxes8
Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts8
Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?8
Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry7
Taxing Uber7
A quantitative evaluation of universal basic income7
Centralized School choice with unequal outside options7
Managing “Last Moment Behavior”: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines7
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats7
Editorial Board7
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing7
Who pays for and who benefits from minimum wage increases? Evidence from Israeli tax data on business owners and workers7
Editorial Board7
TRAP’d Teens: Impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education7
Using payroll taxes as a redistribution tool7
The effects of physician retirement on patient outcomes: Anticipation and disruption7
The place-based effects of police stations on crime: Evidence from station closures7
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation7
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text7
Behavioral cross-influence of a shadow tax bracket: Evidence from bunching where income tax liabilities start7
The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy7
The impact of abortion on crime and crime-related behavior7
Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools7
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data7
The value of relationships in healthcare7
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data7
Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour6
Failure to launch: Measuring the impact of sales tax nexus standards on business activity6
Environmental regulations and international trade: A quantitative economic analysis of world pollution emissions6
Counting on my vote not counting: Expressive voting in committees6
Read my lips? Taxes and elections6
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance6
Editorial Board6
The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination6
Pension incentives and labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK6
Optional (non-)filing and effective taxation6
Incentives, globalization, and redistribution6
A quantitative analysis of subsidy competition in the U.S.6
Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages6
The long-term health and economic consequences of improved property rights6
We’ve got you covered! The effect of public health insurance on rural entrepreneurship in China6
Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium6
Home prices, fertility, and early-life health outcomes6
One hundred years of U.S. state taxation6
Are deficits free?6
Editorial Board6
Building trust in the state with information: Evidence from urban Punjab6
Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment6
Football, alcohol, and domestic abuse6
A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s6
Spot price biases in non-linear health insurance contracts5
Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules5
How did federal aid to states and localities affect testing and vaccine delivery?5
Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic5
How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment5
Financial market exposure increases generalized trust5
Labor supply and automation innovation: Evidence from an allocation policy5
The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection: Evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia5
Optimal tax systems with endogenous behavioral biases5
The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertility5
Eliciting preferences for income redistribution: A new survey item5
An older college professor like me5
Tax evasion and tax avoidance5
Hysteresis from employer subsidies5
Majority choice of taxation and redistribution in a federation5
When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times5
Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts5
Parents’ effective time endowment and divorce: Evidence from extended school days5
Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits5
State responses to federal matching grants: The case of medicaid5
Natural gas flaring, respiratory health, and distributional effects5
OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality5
Understanding the elasticity of taxable income: A tale of two approaches5
‘Earned, not given’? The effect of lowering the full retirement age on retirement decisions5
Diminishing Target-based GDP Manipulation: Evidence from China5
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation5
The impossible trinity: Competitive markets, free entry, and efficiency5
Where and why do politicians send pork? Evidence from central government transfers to French municipalities5
Editorial Board5
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects5
Effect of a transfer shock on subnational debt: Micro evidence from Mexico5
Retirement puzzles: New evidence from personal finances4
Another day, another visit: Impact of Arkansas’ mandatory waiting period for women seeking an abortion by demographic groups4
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