Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Public Economics is 9. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores129
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation122
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments88
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?67
News credibility and the quest for clicks66
Editorial Board65
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India63
Editorial Board60
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high59
Progressive consumption taxes51
The pond dilemma with heterogeneous relative concerns50
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?42
Editorial Board41
State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data41
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition41
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities40
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors40
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP38
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities36
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence35
R&D tax credits and innovation34
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime32
Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities31
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana30
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program29
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure29
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-191129
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration28
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections28
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives28
Industrial automation and local public goods26
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India26
Do prize-linked incentives promote positive financial behavior? Evidence from a debt reduction intervention26
Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform26
Editorial Board26
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence26
Editorial Board26
Tradable immigration quotas revisited25
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona24
Editorial Board24
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions24
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes24
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance24
Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation23
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design22
Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings22
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy22
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior22
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment22
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements22
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition22
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair22
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits21
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system21
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events21
Recovering voice through out-of-district donations20
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran20
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea20
Subjective well-being and social desirability20
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆20
The dynamics of cohort effect in politics20
Multilateral regime change20
Editorial Board19
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news18
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students18
Editorial Board18
Opportunity and inequality across generations17
The effect of war on redistribution preferences17
Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh17
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption17
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon17
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes16
Landmines: The local effects of demining16
Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages16
Noise pollution and violent crime☆16
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools16
Crowding out crowd support? Substitution between formal and informal insurance16
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China15
Wealth inequality and the political economy of financial and labour regulations15
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea15
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness15
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?15
Editorial Board15
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus15
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil15
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children15
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital15
Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work15
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest14
Climate and migration in the United States14
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply14
Economic activity and biodiversity in the United States14
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure14
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru14
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers14
Who benefits from pharmaceutical price controls? Evidence from India14
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia14
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 194014
National parks and economic development14
Effects of speed-schools in Niger13
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves13
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes13
Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns13
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands13
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon13
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China13
Learning from praise: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers13
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy13
Editorial Board13
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment13
Correlation in state and local tax changes13
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment12
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution12
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit12
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming12
The political economy of coastal development12
Editorial Board12
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts12
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences12
The effect of emergency financial assistance on healthcare use12
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers12
Prices vs quantities with risk aversion12
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall12
Auctions for risk-averse non-profits11
Long-term effects of grants and loans for vocational education11
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property11
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment11
Diverting domestic turmoil11
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools11
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers11
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities11
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms11
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria11
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings11
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes11
Editorial Board11
The “Privatization” of municipal debt10
Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?10
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering10
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities10
Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia10
Editorial Board10
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information10
Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals10
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court10
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment10
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics10
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition10
Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India10
Does information affect homophily?10
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard10
Mortgages, Subways and Automobiles9
Self-signaling in voting9
Editorial Board9
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India9
Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry9
The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes: An analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program9
Editorial Board9
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text9
Organized crime, violence and support for the state9
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California9
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand9
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes9
Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act9
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data9
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA9
The effects of physician retirement on patient outcomes: Anticipation and disruption9
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data9
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution9
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion9
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program9
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances9
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters9
Partisan political beliefs and social learning9
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation9
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats9
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand9
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