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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
How many jobs can be done at home?781
Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys704
Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic494
Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic455
The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey433
Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19426
COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends359
Fear, lockdown, and diversion: Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020300
Human mobility restrictions and the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China298
Sheltering in place and domestic violence: Evidence from calls for service during COVID-19271
Labor demand in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from vacancy postings and UI claims224
Suffering in silence: How COVID-19 school closures inhibit the reporting of child maltreatment177
Early evidence of the impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment161
Civic capital and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic☆148
Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks: Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time146
Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic138
Asocial capital: Civic culture and social distancing during COVID-19111
The heterogeneous and regressive consequences of COVID-19: Evidence from high quality panel data94
COVID and crime: An early empirical look90
When carbon emission trading meets a regulated industry: Evidence from the electricity sector of China88
Disentangling policy effects using proxy data: Which shutdown policies affected unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic?88
Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic78
Temperature and temperament: Evidence from Twitter74
“Rugged individualism” and collective (in)action during the COVID-19 pandemic73
My home is my castle – The benefits of working from home during a pandemic crisis73
When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times69
Information frictions and access to the Paycheck Protection Program68
Job search during the COVID-19 crisis64
Revenge of the experts: Will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?64
Economic preferences and compliance in the social stress test of the COVID-19 crisis60
Labor market concerns and support for immigration58
US unemployment insurance replacement rates during the pandemic57
Friends with benefits: Patronage networks and distributive politics in China50
What the COVID-19 school closure left in its wake: Evidence from a regression discontinuity analysis in Japan48
A theory of informational autocracy46
Political hierarchy and regional economic development: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity in China41
Inequality of fear and self-quarantine: Is there a trade-off between GDP and public health?39
Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS-CoV-2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany38
Environmental regulations and international trade: A quantitative economic analysis of world pollution emissions38
State and local government employment in the COVID-19 crisis37
The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences36
Can gender quotas in candidate lists empower women? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design35
Decentralization and efficiency of subsidy targeting: Evidence from chiefs in rural Malawi35
Teacher accountability reforms and the supply and quality of new teachers35
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic34
Racial discrimination in transportation network companies33
Migration, externalities, and the diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia☆33
An evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program using administrative payroll microdata32
Just above the exam cutoff score: Elite college admission and wages in China32
The urban crime and heat gradient in high and low poverty areas31
The long-term effects of childhood exposure to the earned income tax credit on health outcomes31
Federalism, partial prohibition, and cross-border sales: Evidence from recreational marijuana30
Tax-motivated transfer mispricing in South Africa: Direct evidence using transaction data30
Do Americans want to tax wealth? Evidence from online surveys30
How individuals respond to a liquidity shock: Evidence from the 2013 government shutdown30
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru29
Media competition, information provision and political participation: Evidence from French local newspapers and elections, 1944–201429
Tax evasion and tax avoidance28
The macroeconomic effects of lockdown policies28
Family and government insurance: Wage, earnings, and income risks in the Netherlands and the U.S.27
Real-time price indices: Inflation spike and falling product variety during the Great Lockdown27
What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?27
Broadband Internet and social capital27
Unmasking partisanship: Polarization undermines public response to collective risk26
Asymmetric information in residential rental markets: Implications for the energy efficiency gap26
Stalin and the origins of mistrust25
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing25
Intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status in the US25
Retirement and healthcare utilization25
Cross-border tax evasion after the common reporting standard: Game over?25
Non-durable consumption and housing net worth in the Great Recession: Evidence from easily accessible data24
Understanding day care enrolment gaps24
Can access to health care mitigate the effects of temperature on mortality?24
Fatal attraction? Extended unemployment benefits, labor force exits, and mortality24
Divided we stay home: Social distancing and ethnic diversity24
The impact of industry consolidation on government procurement: Evidence from Department of Defense contracting22
Technology and tax systems22
Inequality in socio-emotional skills: A cross-cohort comparison22
Entry through the narrow door: The costs of just failing high stakes exams21
Losing public health insurance: TennCare reform and personal financial distress21
How can Bill and Melinda Gates increase other people's donations to fund public goods?21
Optimal progressivity with age-dependent taxation20
Time inconsistent charitable giving20
Tax evasion, capital gains taxes, and the housing market20
Measuring economic efficiency using inverse-optimum weights20
Reducing discrimination in the field: Evidence from an awareness raising intervention targeting gender biases in student evaluations of teaching20
The effect of the US safety net on material hardship over two decades19
Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean student movement19
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers18
Inequalities and the individualization of wealth18
Do place-based tax incentives create jobs?17
When guidance changes: Government stances and public beliefs17
Public good provision and property tax compliance: Evidence from a natural experiment17
COVID-19, college academic performance, and the flexible grading policy: A longitudinal analysis17
Natural gas flaring, respiratory health, and distributional effects17
Labor market policies during an epidemic17
Long-run pollution exposure and mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program16
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California16
Aging and public financing costs: Evidence from U.S. municipal bond markets16
What motivates non-democratic leadership: Evidence from COVID-19 reopenings in China16
Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market16
The power of the IUD: Effects of expanding access to contraception through Title X clinics16
Sharing the pie: An analysis of undernutrition and individual consumption in Bangladesh15
Heard it through the grapevine: The direct and network effects of a tax enforcement field experiment on firms15
The anatomy of behavioral responses to social assistance when informal employment is high15
Thinking outside the box: The cross-border effect of tax cuts on R&D15
The impact of taxing vacancy on housing markets: Evidence from France15
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession15
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools15
The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation15
Noise pollution and violent crime☆14
Whether, when and how to extend unemployment benefits: Theory and application to COVID-1914
Does higher Institutional Quality improve the Appropriateness of Healthcare Provision?14
The value of registry data for consumption analysis: An application to health shocks14
The Social Value of Health Insurance: Results from Ghana14
Do EITC expansions pay for themselves? Effects on tax revenue and government transfers14
Projecting unemployment durations: A factor-flows simulation approach with application to the COVID-19 recession14
Drug firms’ payments and physicians’ prescribing behavior in Medicare Part D13
Earnings shocks and stabilization during COVID-1913
Sources of inertia in the individual health insurance market13
Is four less than five? Effects of four-day school weeks on student achievement in Oregon13
Educational inequality and public policy preferences: Evidence from representative survey experiments13
False alarm? Estimating the marginal value of health signals13
Costs of energy efficiency mandates can reverse the sign of rebound13
Abandon ship? Party brands and politicians' responses to a political scandal13
The global minimum tax13
The credit consequences of unpaid medical bills13
Surviving a mass shooting13
Relaxing household liquidity constraints through social security13
Do only tax incentives matter? Labor supply and demand responses to an unusually large and salient tax break13
Value for money? Vote-buying and politician accountability12
Missing markets: Evidence on agricultural groundwater demand from volumetric pricing12
Advertising and media capture: The case of climate change12
Politics and the distribution of federal funds: Evidence from federal legislation in response to COVID-1912
A simple dynamic climate cooperation model12
Disguised pollution: Industrial activities in the dark12
Cost saving and the freezing of corporate pension plans12
Home bias in humanitarian aid: The role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief12
Home prices, fertility, and early-life health outcomes12
Fiscal multipliers in advanced and developing countries: Evidence from military spending12
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities12
Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?11
Knowledge spillovers, peer effects, and telecommuting: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office11
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort11
First impressions: How leader changes affect bilateral aid11
Persistence of power: Repeated multilateral bargaining with endogenous agenda setting authority11
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition11
A social norm nudge to save more: A field experiment at a retail bank11
Preferences for power11
Pension incentives and labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK11
Estimating long-run income inequality from mixed tabular data: Empirical evidence from Norway, 1875–201711
Parental monitoring and children's internet use: The role of information, control, and cues11
Disentangling retirement and savings responses10
How much to save? Decision costs and retirement plan participation10
Providing performance information in education: An experimental evaluation in Colombia10
Should congested cities reduce their speed limits? Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil10
A dynamic model of fiscal decentralization and public debt accumulation10
Bureaucrats under Populism10
Building trust in the state with information: Evidence from urban Punjab10
Tax filing and take-up: Experimental evidence on tax preparation outreach and benefit claiming10
Cash on the table? Imperfect take-up of tax incentives and firm investment behavior10
Unilateral tax reform: Border adjusted taxes, cash flow taxes, and transfer pricing10
Small business tax compliance under third-party reporting10
Do peers influence occupational preferences? Evidence from randomly-assigned peer groups at West Point9
Who benefits from tax incentives? The heterogeneous wage incidence of a tax credit9
My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador9
Minimum wage policy with optimal taxes and unemployment9
Legislating during war: Conflict and politics in Colombia9
Fuel economy and the price of gasoline: Evidence from fueling-level micro data9
Designed to fail: Effects of the default option and information complexity on student loan repayment9
Inheritance taxation and wealth effects on the labor supply of heirs9
Are changes of organizational form costly? Income shifting and business entry responses to taxes9
Quid pro quo? Government-firm relationships in China9
Intergroup contact and nation building: Evidence from military service in Spain9
The heterogeneous price of a vote: Evidence from multiparty systems, 1993–20179
The effects of introducing withholding and third-party reporting on tax collections: Evidence from the U.S. state personal income tax9
Adjustment cost and incentives to work: Evidence from a disability insurance program9
Optimal tax systems with endogenous behavioral biases9
Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment9
School district revenue shocks, resource allocations, and student achievement: Evidence from the universe of U.S. wind energy installations9
Optimal taxes on capital in the OLG model with uninsurable idiosyncratic income risk9
Spillover effects of stricter immigration policies8
Women’s representation in politics: The effect of electoral systems8
Counting on my vote not counting: Expressive voting in committees8
The place-based effects of police stations on crime: Evidence from station closures8
When financial aid is scarce: The challenge of allocating college aid where it is needed most8
Estimating taxable income responses with elasticity heterogeneity8
The minimum wage, informal pay, and tax enforcement8
Diversity and team performance in a Kenyan organization☆8
Gender and lawmaking in times of quotas8
Investment differences between public and private firms: Evidence from U.S. tax returns8
Changes in household diet: Determinants and predictability8
The incidence of extreme economic stress: Evidence from utility disconnections8
Hysteresis from employer subsidies8
VAT compliance, trade, and institutions8
Online shopping can redistribute local tax revenue from urban to rural America8
What determines school segregation? The crucial role of neighborhood factors8
More opportunity, more cooperation? The behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth8
ICT, collaboration, and innovation: Evidence from BITNET8
Political differences in air pollution abatement under the Clean Air Act7
Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry7
Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? Evidence from the appliance market7
Attribution bias in major decisions: Evidence from the United States Military Academy7
A more comprehensive estimate of the value of water quality7
Overclaimed refunds, undeclared sales, and invoice mills: Nature and extent of noncompliance in a value-added tax7
An extra year to learn English? Early grade retention and the human capital development of English learners7
Real responses to anti-tax avoidance: Evidence from the UK Worldwide Debt Cap7
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation7
The effect of reduced student loan borrowing on academic performance and default: Evidence from a loan counseling experiment7
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance7
Who pays for and who benefits from minimum wage increases? Evidence from Israeli tax data on business owners and workers7
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats7
Speed limit enforcement and road safety7
Optimal income taxation with labor supply responses at two margins: When is an Earned Income Tax Credit optimal?7
The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris agreement target: The role of firm creation and technology adoption7
Too family friendly? The consequences of parent part-time working rights7
The welfare effects of extending unemployment benefits: Evidence from re-employment and unemployment transfers7
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment6
The effects of corporate taxes on small firms6
Reference points and redistributive preferences: Experimental evidence6
Test scores and educational opportunities: Panel evidence from five low- and middle-income countries6
Crowd-out in school-based health interventions: Evidence from India’s midday meals program6
Misaligned incentives and the scale of incarceration in the United States6
Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits6
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects6
Behavioral responses to inheritance and gift taxation: Evidence from Germany6
Taxation, accountability, and cash transfers: Breaking the resource curse6
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China6
Community monitoring and crime: Evidence from Chicago's Safe Passage Program6
Relabeling, retirement and regret6
The informational value of environmental taxes6
Spot price biases in non-linear health insurance contracts6
Suing the government under weak rule of law: Evidence from administrative litigation reform in China6
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands6
The dynamics of linking permit markets6
Can judiciaries constrain executive power? Evidence from judicial reforms6
Deathbed tax planning6
Information, switching costs, and consumer choice: Evidence from two randomised field experiments in Swedish primary health care6
Mean markets or kind commerce?6
Limits to third-party reporting: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Norway5
One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program5
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information5
Large learning gains in pockets of extreme poverty: Experimental evidence from Guinea Bissau5
Micro-targeting and polarization5
A natural experiment on discrimination in elections5
Brains or beauty? Causal evidence on the returns to education and attractiveness in the online dating market5
The medicaid windfall: Medicaid expansions and the target efficiency of hospital safety-net subsidies5
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India5
Partisan spatial sorting in the United States: A theoretical and empirical overview5
Housing liquidity and long-term care insurance demand: A quantitative evaluation5
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