Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Public Economics is 7. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inequality as an externality: Consequences for tax design151
Brains or beauty? Causal evidence on the returns to education and attractiveness in the online dating market129
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms122
Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information106
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities103
Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules89
A note on optimal taxation, status consumption, and unemployment88
R&D tax credits and innovation81
Who benefits from public financing of home-based long term care? Evidence from Medicaid73
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard71
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The medicaid windfall: Medicaid expansions and the target efficiency of hospital safety-net subsidies60
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities59
Does information affect homophily?58
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court54
Joint retirement of couples: Evidence from discontinuities in Denmark53
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects47
Intergroup contact and nation building: Evidence from military service in Spain46
The incidence of extreme economic stress: Evidence from utility disconnections44
Disparate racial impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on voter turnout42
Tax enforcement using a hybrid between self- and third-party reporting41
Partisan spatial sorting in the United States: A theoretical and empirical overview41
Hierarchy and Information40
How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment38
Do social media ads matter for political behavior? A field experiment38
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Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?32
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Do college students benefit from placement into higher-achieving classes?31
Television and American consumerism28
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities27
Optimal taxation with multiple dimensions of heterogeneity24
Large learning gains in pockets of extreme poverty: Experimental evidence from Guinea Bissau24
Emergency cash transfers for informal workers: Impact evidence from Mexico24
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Institutional flexibility, political alternation, and middle-of-the-road policies23
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Food subsidies in general equilibrium22
Housing liquidity and long-term care insurance demand: A quantitative evaluation21
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment21
News credibility and the quest for clicks20
Information, switching costs, and consumer choice: Evidence from two randomised field experiments in Swedish primary health care20
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Minimum wage, social insurance mandate, and working hours20
Courts, Crime and Economic Performance: Evidence from a Judicial Reform in Kenya19
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers19
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings19
Encouragement and distortionary effects of conditional cash transfers19
Progressive consumption taxes18
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India18
Tax curvature18
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Projecting unemployment durations: A factor-flows simulation approach with application to the COVID-19 recession17
Tax competition in the presence of profit shifting17
What the COVID-19 school closure left in its wake: Evidence from a regression discontinuity analysis in Japan17
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation17
Bureaucrats under Populism16
Economic spillovers and political payoffs in government competition for firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War16
The long-run impacts of adolescent drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws16
Unemployment benefits and redundancies: Incidence and timing effects16
Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees16
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?16
Understanding the elasticity of taxable income: A tale of two approaches15
Mean markets or kind commerce?15
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment15
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence15
Eliciting preferences for income redistribution: A new survey item15
ICT, collaboration, and innovation: Evidence from BITNET15
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high15
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession15
Estimating structural demand and supply models using tax rates as instruments15
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation15
Intrahousehold inequality and the joint taxation of household earnings15
Natural gas flaring, respiratory health, and distributional effects15
Payroll tax incidence: Evidence from unemployment insurance15
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes15
Supply-side health policy: The impact of scope-of-practice laws on mortality15
The impossible trinity: Competitive markets, free entry, and efficiency15
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property14
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities14
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition14
Centralization and regulatory enforcement: Evidence from personnel authority reform in China14
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors14
Optimal default options14
Just above the exam cutoff score: Elite college admission and wages in China13
Supply-side optimal capital taxation with endogenous wage inequality13
Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits13
Spot price biases in non-linear health insurance contracts13
Economic preferences and compliance in the social stress test of the COVID-19 crisis13
Sources of inertia in the individual health insurance market13
Asocial capital: Civic culture and social distancing during COVID-1912
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information12
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering12
An evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program using administrative payroll microdata12
State responses to federal matching grants: The case of medicaid12
Public good provision and property tax compliance: Evidence from a natural experiment12
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments12
Ministers Engage in Favoritism Too12
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP12
The effects of recreational marijuana laws on drug use and crime11
Financial market exposure increases generalized trust11
Rethinking principal effects on student outcomes11
The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertility11
The demand for protection and the persistently high rates of gun violence among young black males11
COVID-19, college academic performance, and the flexible grading policy: A longitudinal analysis11
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances10
The air quality and well-being effects of low emission zones10
Limits to third-party reporting: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Norway10
When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times10
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes10
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure10
The consequences of job search monitoring for the long-term unemployed: Disability instead of employment?10
The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?10
Real responses to anti-tax avoidance: Evidence from the UK Worldwide Debt Cap10
When scale and replication work: Learning from summer youth employment experiments9
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California9
The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection: Evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia9
Do renewable energy investments create local jobs?9
Organized crime, violence and support for the state9
Effect of a transfer shock on subnational debt: Micro evidence from Mexico9
Optimal tax systems with endogenous behavioral biases9
Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? Evidence from the appliance market9
How fiscally autonomous are local governments? An empirical test9
Uneven recessions and optimal firm subsidies9
Where and why do politicians send pork? Evidence from central government transfers to French municipalities9
Performance pay, productivity, and strategic opt-out: Evidence from a community health center9
The effect of the US safety net on material hardship over two decades9
Timing matters: Intra-day shifts of economic activity and ambient ozone concentrations9
The “Privatization” of municipal debt9
The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation9
The intergenerational effects of welfare transfers among single mothers: Evidence from an Israeli welfare reform9
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics9
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand8
Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts8
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Do housing regulations affect child development? Evidence and mechanisms8
Data-driven incentive alignment in capitation schemes8
Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts8
Medicaid and provider supply8
Guns and roses: Police complicity in organized prostitution8
The employment effects of collective wage bargaining8
One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program8
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With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime8
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Sequential agenda setting with strategic and informative voting7
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand7
Cutting special interests by the roots: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon7
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition7
Technological change, campaign spending and polarization7
The (in)visible hand: Do workers discriminate against employers?7
Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?7
How much violence does football hooliganism cause?7
Social mobility in Germany7
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Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?7
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives7
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections7
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Self-signaling in voting7
Estimating labor supply responses to Danish tax reforms7
When (and why) providers do not respond to changes in reimbursement rates7
The zero-rent society: Evidence from hydropower and petroleum windfalls in Norwegian local governments7
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Transitory income changes and consumption smoothing: Evidence from Mexico7
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