Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Public Economics is 25. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information147
OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality102
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores91
Financial market exposure increases generalized trust90
Brains or beauty? Causal evidence on the returns to education and attractiveness in the online dating market65
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms65
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard58
Editorial Board56
The medicaid windfall: Medicaid expansions and the target efficiency of hospital safety-net subsidies55
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities50
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court49
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects47
Intergroup contact and nation building: Evidence from military service in Spain45
Tax enforcement using a hybrid between self- and third-party reporting44
The incidence of extreme economic stress: Evidence from utility disconnections42
Inequality as an externality: Consequences for tax design40
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property38
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments36
Who benefits from public financing of home-based long term care? Evidence from Medicaid34
Do social media ads matter for political behavior? A field experiment32
Hierarchy and Information31
How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment29
Editorial Board29
Editorial Board29
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?27
Do college students benefit from placement into higher-achieving classes?25
Editorial Board25
Television and American consumerism25
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